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Northern Trust appoints head of hedge funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Northern Trust has announced a new head of hedge fund services for Asia-Pacific, aligning with an evolving service demand in the hedge fund industry. The internal move sees Ali Sheikh appointed to the Asia-Pacific role. He was most recently a senior ...

Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... "While we will manage the analysis of a full spectrum of managers, from passive through smart beta to highly active hedge funds, we will not be looking to take on the operational and agency risk of in-house asset management," Bell said. He said the fund ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... a well-told story. The Future Fund, for instance, has had a great deal of success investing in illiquid assets and hedge funds and now allocates some 14% of its $117 billon in alternatives. It has a further 10% in private equity. "You can't just wake ...

Ellerston named hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
The Ellerston Australian Market Neutral Fund has taken home 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 ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Australia's hedge fund industry through the $100 billion mark, and continue strong growth that saw assets managed by hedge funds increase more than 45% from 2012 to 2014. ASIC data also showed that in 2014, Australia's largest hedge funds reported average ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... dependent on the direction of traditional asset markets." The fund's portfolio was constructed by Aberdeen's 18-person hedge funds team, led by Aberdeen Asset Management head of hedge funds Russell Barlow - who will, in turn, report to global head of ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... 15.2% since inception, 8.1% above the benchmark. The manager also offers venture capital investments, real assets and hedge funds.

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 ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... investment. He learned that allocation to alternative assets - in particular, the two pillars of private equity and hedge funds - was rapidly increasing across the whole US institutional sector. "We've had US institutional allocations into alternates ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... by the Greek debt crisis, a global Eurekahedge report for June 2015 showed. After five months of consecutive gains, hedge funds posted their first monthly loss this year in June, when returns fell 1.19% globally. However, hedge funds still outperformed ...