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Ellerston named hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... the 2015 Australian Hedge Fund of the Year award. Hedge funds of all styles and sizes were recognised at the Hedge Funds Rock event in Sydney's glitzy Ivy Ballroom. Ellerston also collected the best market neutral fund award while Qato Capital was awarded ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... the passengers on board excitedly rushed to one side to get some photos of the family of seals that had jumped up onto a rock ledge under a waterfall. More than 100 people rushing to one side of a tourist launch was enough to make it severely and suddenly ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... clients who qualify as wholesale or sophisticated investors. Paton said the bonds offered potential value because of Apple's rock solid credit profile and safe haven status which made them attractive to investors in periods of economic turbulence. "We ...

Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
Industry Super Australia has launched a series of advertisements putting their case ahead of proposals likely to change the way employer and employee default superannuation funds are selected. Earlier this month federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Hedge funds should be thriving in the unusual low return environment. But instead of turning to the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... mixed as China announced new rules restricting short selling after a recent market rout and Australia held interest rates at rock-bottom levels. Shanghai jumped 3.69 per cent or 133.63 points to 3,756.54, while Hong Kong ended flat, down 0.02 per cent ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... road, the A$ falls? Not that I'm complaining... and am sure RBA Gov Glen would too. Gov Glenn would be happier with Black Rock's prediction of a slide to around US70Ac before the New Year and Capital Economics' forecast of US65Ac by end-2016. Yipee-kay-yay! ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... measures ever so slowly - as it normalises trading activity. Sounds like I'm talking about the Fed, 'ey? But my, my, hey, hey, rock and roll is here to stay. It's the weekend again folks and it's gonna be another long one. Yes, it's another weekend ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
We might have to go pass the 11th hour and into the 13th for the "adults" in the "emergency summit" room continue to disagree to agree. Yes Virginia, the Greeks and the troika have exhausted the third of the three scheduled talks this week and still... ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... 2015..." This is where the Fed finds itself among the Greeks. It's doing a Sissyphus - the Greek king punished to roll a rock up a hill to see it roll back down again and again... and again... forevermore. For no sooner as lift-off talks re-emerge the ...