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Founder of GSAM quant group to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... company. S&P fund services subsequently confirmed that the ratings on the Goldman Sachs Global Flex funds (both hedged and unhedged) are unaffected by the announcement. S&P noted that Jones' retirement is the culmination of an orderly three-year succession ...

Strong dollar fuels shift to unhedged intl equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
Some financial advisers are responding to client demand for their international share investments to be unhedged. "There will be advisers looking at internationals more due to the high Australian dollar but if you are getting research that the dollar ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... the moment." Long term expected risk and return was forecast at 6.6 per cent gross with 14.5 per cent volatility with unhedged strategies to remain less volatile than hedged due to the strong Australian dollar likely to continue to be strongly correlated ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... surged 8.9 per cent over the course of the month, the best performance for the US benchmark index since 1939. Notably for unhedged Australian investors, the increase in the Aussie dollar over the month would have wiped out all of these returns. According ...

Fully hedged funds are the past decade's winners: Zenith

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... US$0.98c in June 2008. But a decade earlier in the 1990s,when a downtrend in the Australian dollar was entrenched, a fully unhedged approach would, no surprise, have been more beneficial. The Australian dollar's strong correlation to global equity prices ...

GVI launches unhedged global industrial fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
International equities investment manager Global Value Investors has launched an unhedged version of its Global Industrial Share Fund (GISF). Head of investments at GVI, Roy Chen, said the new fund would provide greater choice for investors at both ...

MLC cuts Wellington and appoints Carnegie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... announced last year, which saw the firm outperform the benchmark by 1.3 per cent over the year to 31 March 2010, on an unhedged basis, before fees and taxes. "While the strategy changes do not materially change the overall style characteristics of the ...

Australian dollar separates winners and losers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Patient unhedged global equities investors are rewarded as the value of the Australian dollar falls against the greenback but the same event may be causing havoc in portfolios that aren't regularly rebalanced, according to experts. The Australian dollar's ...

Invesco launches unhedged global REIT fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Invesco has released an unhedged version of its Wholesale Global Property Securities fund. The firm said a key benefit of the unhedged version of the fund is the income distributions are not reduced by FX losses, which can diminish income in the fund. ...

Macq Global Investments wins mandates...

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... for the 12 months to August. The Arrowstreet Global Equity fund has beaten the MSCI All Countries World ex Australia - unhedged by more than 8 per cent over the 12 months to July.