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Half price hedge fund?

... and aims to deliver a return of cash plus 5 per cent per annum (post fees, pre-tax) over a five year period with a volatility of around 6 per cent per annum. However, what makes it different from other FOHFs is that JANA said it would cost around half ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... categories including bond country selection, global asset class selection, stock country selection, currency selection and volatility management. "Asset class positioning is bearish for global stocks and bullish for global bonds in comparison, but at ...

Franklin Templeton eyes Aus REITs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... significant network," Stephen Girdis, global head of Macquarie real estate, said. However, Foster said recent market volatility has provided access to properties that were previously expensive. "We had our eye on ProLogis, especially considering its ...

Apostle launches US small-mid cap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... asymmetrical payoffs so when you look at the characteristics of the companies, we end up investing in companies where the volatility is lower than the broader universe with high returns on assets and very good valuations," he said. Karyn West, managing ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... included alternative strategies fared better than a traditional portfolio in times of economic uncertainty and market volatility. Private equity, publicly traded infrastructure and real estate also offered similar risks to equity but with superior returns. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... well. Nearly 170 of the top 200 companies are in positive territory," Mr Land said at midday. "There has been a lot of volatility in those recent sessions. "We have recovered some of that ground that was lost given the strength of trade today." Mr Land ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

... strategy carbon fund. The RTM Absolute Return Fund aims to return cash plus 10 per cent, with medium- to long-term annual volatility of under 10 per cent. It has delivered 23.01 per cent since inception and 11.56 per cent returns in the last 12 months ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

... Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one survey after another show that after taking out the fees and volatility of actively managed funds, investors are better off investing on the index. But Fiani puts a case for active managers ...

Macq goes global

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... 34 per cent to $4.02, up from $3.01 the same time last year. Chief financial officer Greg Ward said commodity market volatility helped increase customer flows and strong demand for retail products in the first half of the year. Moss also said the company ...

Pengana wins $150m QIC mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has awarded a mandate worth more than $150 million to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility fund. Alvin Wilkinson, principal portfolio manager of Global Volatility at Pengana, said the mandate was the product of ...