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First Sentier hires from AMP Capital

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... manager for AMP Capital's Absolute Return and Alternative Risk Premia funds. Kabashima was also a research analyst, hedge funds at EIM Management in New York and started her career as a financial adviser intern at Morgan Stanley in Los Angeles. In ...

Tourmaline hires two leads, expands footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... Sydney and the other will lead its newly established Dallas office. The trading solutions firm for asset managers and hedge funds named Yuki Shimada as director of Asia Pacific trading. He was most recently a senior equities trader at CBRE Clarion Securities ...

Praemium develops relationship with US platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... Qualis Capital's platform offers sophisticated investors funds in private equity, real estate, private debt and hedge funds. In May, Powerwrap signed an administration partnership with Qualis and also became its exclusive distributor in Australia. ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... managers. The survey found talent retention is the number one priority for 83% of private equity firms and 55% of hedge funds in Asia Pacific. Managers are also concerned with employee productivity, deterioration in firm culture and difficulty in training ...

Barrenjoey Capital hires from FIIG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... and has held a number of senior positions in the financial services industry. Prior to FIIG she was credit officer, hedge funds and financial institutions at UBS and associate director and senior analyst at Westpac Institutional Bank. She also held several ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... is added over broad market exposure (such as private equity) or for exposures which are truly diversifying (such as hedge funds)." However, the fund's latest profit and loss statement shows major downgrades to asset fair values, plummeting from $8.5 ...

Ratings house launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... wholesale, illiquid and listed investment products, as well as property syndicates, private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. It is looking to launch an ESG assessment framework in the near future. The fledgling research house, which has four ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Several pension funds are suing hedge funds managed by Allianz Global Investors for allegedly engaging in risk-taking behaviour and losing billions of dollars in retirement savings. The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) was the first pension ...

VFMC director nabs global role

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... leads the investment manager's fundamental equities business across its US, Europe, global, emerging markets, hedge funds, thematic/sectors, and sustainability active strategies. Gamba has worked at BlackRock for nearly 20 years, during which he ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... average, returned 3.10% year to date, well below the results seen in 2019 (14.3%). According to the data, the ten largest hedge funds underperformed the industry average during both August and the year thus far, returning 0.32% and -1.21% respectively. ...