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Hedge fund sector flourishing: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... structured as undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and employ similar strategies to hedge funds. Long-short (20%) was the most widely used investment strategy, followed by global macro (16%) and fixed income arbitrage ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... professionals are increasingly looking at ways to integrate unstructured data into an overall model. The most advanced hedge funds or quant hedge funds are currently gaining value out of machine learning, while others are "running really fast to catch ...

Women underrepresented in funds management: research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... to global average of 21%. By asset class, private equity employees have the lowest proportion (17.9%), followed by hedge funds (18.6%); venture capital firms and real estate employ the highest number of females (20.5% and 20.6% respectively). By role ...

Derivatives specialist opens Sydney office, appoints Australia head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... range of risk management solutions to our growing key client segments across asset managers, banking, commercials, hedge funds and proprietary trading," Duffy said. CME managing director and head of Asia-Pacific Christopher Fix added: "Australia is central ...

Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
The Macquarie Australia Plus Fund has taken out a key accolade at the 2017 Hedge Funds Rock and Australian Alternative Investment Awards. The awards, which recognise alternative investment managers who have produced superior risk adjusted returns and ...

Hedge fund takes over Slater and Gordon

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... million loss for the 2017 financial year, listed law firm Slater and Gordon is set to be taken over by a consortium of hedge funds. The consortium, led by Anchorage Capital, have committed to lending a further $50 million in working capital to the troubled ...

Contribution caps cause SMSF cash surge

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... from 36.7%), 13.1% global equities (up from 12.9%), 19.3% property (up from 19.2%) and 0.4% in other vehicles such as hedge funds, agricultural funds and private trusts (down from 0.5%). The cash spike occurred as a direct result of the massive increase ...

New super product for investment savvy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... listed investment companies (LICs); real estate investment trusts (REITs); managed funds registered by ASIC (including hedge funds and cash management trusts); and deposits with an Australian deposit-taking institution (term deposits and At Call accounts). ...

Macquarie leads alternatives pack

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... Pacific) found real estate managers (35%) hold the lion's share of AUM followed by private equity fund managers and hedge funds (equal 17%), private equity funds of funds (12%), illiquid credit (9%), funds of hedge funds (6%), infrastructure (4%) and ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... would've said, 'What do you mean? Quant stuff is for the geeks!'" Now, though, Farren said he's seen many US-based hedge funds trying to understand quant and factor exposure. "I'd say the future of active management really is a combination of the two," ...