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Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... small cap stocks and Asia, as increased cross-sectional volatility opens the door for the fund's active managers to add alpha to their returns. "The economic downturn post the GFC has highlighted the resilience of the Asian ex-Japan economies and opportunity ...

Murphy takes over the reins at BNY Mellon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... marketing roles at Prudential and Citibank. "The sophistication of the Australian market has led to an uptake of specialist alpha generating investment ideas that provide strong opportunities for out product set," said Jon Little, vice chair at BNP Mellon ...

Westpac moves to wholly own Ascalon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... business with the biggest FUM in the street, our businesses will be small, simply structured where their team will deliver alpha," he said. St.George Bank founded Ascalon Capital in 2000 and the bank has become part of the Westpac Group following the ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... Australian equities at Barclays Global Investors, found active managers will have some of the best opportunities to add alpha in the next one to three years than in recent history. "There is no doubt the financial crisis has made markets less efficient ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... firm provides investors with three funds; the TI Intercept Capital Fund; TI Technology Investment Fund and the TI Explicit Alpha Fund. Steele said TechInvest is looking to hire extra staff to help the firm grow effectively. "This is an environment where ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... you have to be actively managed in those asset classes [such as Aussie equities], there is quite compelling evidence of alpha and outperformance and additional returns from active management," said Eagleton. The reason Mercer is particularly flagging ...

QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
QIC has opened the firm's Global Fixed Interest Alpha fund to international investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... behalf of 50,000 investors in over 20 countries. It is a new entrant to the local market, launching one product, the Super Alpha Fund 1, to retail investors in November last year. The group had to add "Alpha" to its name for its local arm after discovering ...

CSRF chases alpha

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... Management a $100 million mandate each to capture short-term equity market opportunities. The mandates were allocated to the BGI Alpha Advantage Equity fund and the BlackRock Australian Quant Strategies fund. The BGI fund uses a 120/20 long short investment ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... "For example, if a client wants to maintain a specific market exposure versus a cash plus approach, we can combine the GFI Alpha Fund with a synthetically created fixed interest or equity market exposure that will resemble a traditional benchmark structure," ...