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Global fund manager replaces COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... Associates/Credit Suisse Asset Management, and COO of Trident Investment Management, an investment firm managing mutual funds and hedge funds. Epoch co-founder, chief executive and co-chief investment officer William Priest said: "I look forward to partnering ...

New manager raising $30m for crypto fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... potential to be doing 100% over the next few years." "There's a lot of institutional money coming into the space. Wall St, hedge funds, family offices - they're all starting to warm up to the reality that this asset class isn't going to be anywhere." ...

Kim Ivey launches new boutique

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
The founder of one of Australia's first hedge funds, Kim Ivey, is launching a new boutique and building out its investment team. LSL Partners will develop alternative investment products focusing on the Asian region. Its first product, the Fury Fund ...

Longreach inks deal with global data provider

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... management tool as part the Longreach Harvest Quant Investors (LHQI) strategies. Explaining this, LHQI said quant hedge funds are becoming an increasingly competitive sector, with more than $1 trillion in assets under management by the end of October ...

SMSFs and instos driving crypto exchange growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... sidelines are now choosing to enter the market. "Factors like the new regulation by AUSTRAC, emerging ETFs and crypto hedge funds, new bitcoin futures, and the growing mainstream acceptance of bitcoin as an asset have given institutional and SMSF investors ...

BlackRock names head of financial institution

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... Survey, 224 institutional clients with US$7 trillion in investible assets said they intend to increase exposure to hedge funds (5%), private equity (33%), real estate (32%) and real assets (55%) this year.

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... Asia-Pacific markets, Europe and North America. Santo has 20 years of experience working across investment banking, hedge funds and trading. He was most recently a senior vice president of Northern Trust Capital Markets, focused on sales and trading ...

High valuations drive insto investors to alternatives: BlackRock

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... collectively representing US$7 trillion in investible assets. Respondents expressed an intent to increase exposure to hedge funds (5%), private equity (33%), real estate (32%) and real assets (55%). Conversely, institutional investors are expected to ...

Alternative beta corresponds with adviser risk concerns

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... premia via a rules-based, quantitative approach. "They are strategies which have historically been associated with hedge funds, which aim to produce 'absolute returns' - in other words, performance in all market conditions, regardless of whether the ...

Mercer increases Japanese footprint via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... and non-alternative investments including long-short funds, private equity and debt, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and commodities," the statement said. In May 2015, Mercer launched its delegated solutions business Mercer Investment Solutions ...