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DSTi risk solution protects another manager

IAG Asst management has signed onto the DST International (DSTi) risk management program. After a long selection process, IAG reportedly chose DSTi's program to meet their specific risk management and value risk needs. DSTi chief executive officer for ...

SELECT appoints the good doctor

FINANCIAL STANDARD | WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2005

Select Asset Management Limited (SELECT) has appointed a global macro specialist to help improve their multi-manager alternative portfolio. Dr Bart Dowling, author and current managing director of Evolutionary Finance (Australia) Ltd, will join SELECT's ...

Index for the smart, hedge for the stupid

... it as cheaply as possible and index funds are a great way to do that," he said. But Timothy Schuler, director of the hedge fund investment group of Credit Suisse First Boston, responded to Sinquefield's 'hedge funds are for stupid people' statement when ...

WA Local Government SELECT Gottex

SELECT Asset Management (SELECT) have won a $20 million mandate from the WA Local Government Superannuation Scheme. The mandate, to be placed within the SELECT Gottex Market Neutral Fund, was awarded after due diligence was completed by Counterpoint ...

S&P expands ratings team

... for almost five years, while Comper comes from a financial markets investment research background, with a US based hedge fund manager. S&P's head of fund ratings, Mark Hoven, said the appointments are timely given S&P's launch last week of its improved ...

FOHFs get the nod from van Eyk

... announced last week. Jerome said that the benefit of the FOHFs model is that it lowers the risk of investing with a single hedge fund, decreasing opaque practices and start up failure rates. "Investing directly with single hedge funds can be risky because ...

NRMA award IXIS funds-to-funds mandate

... the Australian domiciled fund. The mandate joins AU$100 million already invested with the fund, which includes eight hedge fund strategies, including hedged equities, short selling, equity strategies and relative value arbitrage.

AUD to go hungry as investors lose their appetite: Julius Baer

... risk-averse positions and this could weaken the global appetite for the AUD. Julius Baer in its latest Global Rates Hedge Fund report says, 'One of the key features of global markets in recent weeks has been a rise in risk aversion.' 'This has its roots ...

Van Eyk clarifies ratings methods

... is not retrospective so current recommendations will remain unchanged until their next annual review. She adds that hedge fund-of-fund managers will be the first segment to come under this new criteria but only because of timing, not for any industry-related ...

Platypus enters the long-short pond

Platypus Capital Management (PCM), an Australian hedge fund firm linked to Platypus Asset Management, have launched an Australian Long/Short Fund. The Platypus Australian Long/Short Fund has start-out capital of $33 million of institutional money to ...

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Federal Court lifts Merhi's travel ban

KARREN VERGARA | 12:25PM

Former financial adviser Ferras Merhi is now free to travel as the Federal Court lifted travel restraint orders imposed one year ago.

Hostplus delivers double-digit FY26 returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:30PM

Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option delivered members 10.8% for the financial year 2025-26, while the Indexed Balanced option and the High Growth option returned members 11.06% and 12.61% respectively.

ASIC levy estimates jump 19% as regulator ramps up funding

VINNY VUCAGO | 12:21PM

ASIC has lifted its estimated industry funding levy by almost 20% for 2025-26, with regulated entities expected to shoulder $400.5 million in regulatory costs as the corporate watchdog expands its supervision and enforcement activities.

GQG bleeds over US$7bn in FUM in June

MATTHEW WAI | 12:13PM

Despite recording positive investment performance, GQG Partners observed a significant outflow, with net outflows of $4.62 billion recorded in the month of June, as FUM slipped to $225 billion at June end, compared to $235.5 billion in the month prior.

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