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SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... to managers increasingly hitting capacity caps. "Strategies that can provide consistent upside return but without market risk - such as some hedge funds and market neutral funds - are hard to find and often hard to access due to capacity constraints," ...

Demand remains for underperforming market neutral investments

An industry report on market neutral investment strategies prepared by research house van Eyk has shown continuing strong demand for these schemes despite the fact fund managers of these plans provided poor returns last year in comparison to more traditional ...

Moody's places Ansell long term ratings on review- poss upgrade

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2004
... driven by the sustained improvements evident in Ansell\'s operating profile, with sound diversity in operating and market risk, coupled with its continued conservative financial approach and as demonstrated in its improving credit metrics. It said the ...

Moody's assigns A/MR3 rating to Australian Corporate Bond Fund

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2004
Moody's Investors Service has assigned mutual fund credit and market risk ratings of A/MR3 to the Australian Corporate Bond Fund. The fund, which is designed for institutional investors, is managed by AMP Capital Investors Limited (the manager). The ...

Platinum rates highly: Morningstar

... Morningstar said. This arises from a belief that prevention of capital loss is more relevant than benchmarking a particular market risk, and it also allows Platinum to shortsell particular stocks. Platinum does not specify an outperformance target, and ...

"You have every right to be disappointed": AMP's Willcox

AMP's chairman Peter Willcox has attempted to defuse shareholder anger at today's Annual General Meeting by accepting responsibility for past mistakes and defending the $2.6 billion in writedowns announced on May 1. "You have every right to be disappointed ...

AMP announces demerger, $2.6 billion writedowns

AMP has announced a massive restructure that will see the company demerged along geographical lines and writedown $2.6 billion. "These changes address the outstanding issues facing the company and are in the best interests for shareholders, customers ...

ASSIRT gives 4 star rating to Vertex Capital

... investment returns since he joined Vertex," it said. ASSIRT said the Vertex process was designed to minimise systemic market risk and results in a portfolio exhibiting a low correlation to the Australian equity market through time. Around 30 stocks are ...