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Henderson wins $275m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... Cheshire Pension Fund. According to a statement by HGI, the assets will be invested in the recently launched Henderson High Alpha Gilt Fund and Henderson High Alpha Credit Fund. These fixed income funds aim to outperform traditional UK benchmarks by ...

Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... opportunities within the global Aviva Investors Model. Falzon began her career at National Mutual/AXA in 1983, and joined Alpha Investment Management in 1998 where she was responsible for client services, business development and operations. Aviva's ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... said "the role of emerging market economies has grown significantly and can provide model portfolios with an additional alpha source." The firm practices a bottom-up stock selection process and a "value investment philosophy" to its funds management ...

Ventura breaks benchmark shackles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... their skills regardless of country or sector positions. It takes off those benchmark shackles and lets the managers add alpha according to their skill," said Kate Mulligan, Ventura managing director. Based on historical modeling the Global Opportunities ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
Global investment manager BlackRock adjusts the nuts and bolts of its asset allocation alpha fund so that the fund can comfortably ride out the volatile markets. Speaking at a BlackRock conference in Sydney yesterday, BlackRock head of asset allocation ...

Russell rejigs international funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... fund's global exposure from 30 per cent to 40 per cent, which we believe will better position it to take advantage of more alpha generating opportunities." Meanwhile Harris Associates, while not replacing any existing manager, has been allocated 10 per ...

MGI launches Queen Street Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... companies have always had a deep research focus and the flexibility to respond to new developments in the industry such as alpha-beta separation, emerging boutique managers, new business models and investment strategies."

Water investments the next frontier

... study. The report was conducted by listed hedge fund manager Man Investments, who said that the water sector offers new alpha-generating opportunities due to the dearth of fund managers specialising in the sector. "Hedge funds are, in general, now only ...

More money on money

... billion) over the last three years. "The substantial increase in international investments by pension schemes, coupled with the alpha generating opportunities in active currency management, have resulted in a significant increase in the importance of ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

... than a billion each year since launch, as more super funds shift their money from 'vanilla' index portfolios to those with 'alpha' returns. Global Index Plus (GIP) uses an 'active enhanced' index approach meaning they use quantitative techniques to build ...