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ASIC to crack down on big four, AMP and Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... problems with individual entities quickly and effectively where necessary." The regulator will also "gather data on hedge funds through the global hedge fund survey to identify risks relating to gatekeeper conduct in this sector. "We remain concerned ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Lack of hedge fund scale forced CalPERS to abandon the sector, not the inability of hedge funds to perform Last month the US$300 billion California public sector pension fund rattled global hedge fund managers when they announced they were cashing out ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... sporadic trading that was expected on the final day of the September quarter. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said that hedge funds and large fund managers were balancing their books in line with trading strategies after recent heavy losses. At the start ...

Regal named Australian hedge fund of the year

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... night's Hedge Fund Awards held at the Westin Hotel in Sydney. Now in their 12th year the awards were handed out at Hedge Funds Rock, an event that also raises funds for children's cancer charity Cure Our Kids. Regal took home the Australian hedge fund ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... $3-$4 billion. You can just feel the pips squeaking as they do it," he finished. Based in London, Haydon is a fund of hedge funds specialist responsible for over US$8.2 billion on FRM's managed account platform. The company is one of the largest independent ...

How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... has a 25% allocation to alternatives, each family office exec said they were likely to increase their allocations to hedge funds in the future, though they said strategies were considered on a case by case basis with a great deal of emphasis on operational ...

Towers Watson shakes up manager research teams

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... the hedge fund stream, will take head up the newly created "Diversifying Strategies" stream, which includes macro hedge funds, reinsurance, systematic hedge fund strategies, multi-strategy/multi-asset funds, real estate, infrastructure, agriculture ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... produced with his four election wins, was nevertheless too loyal to his presidential comrade-in-arms. And third was hedge funds. I know they are bad because most times people lose money on the stock, bond or currency markets, journalists usually say ...

State Street appoints head of alternatives in Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... investors are becoming more sophisticated and demanding and are allocating more assets to private equity, real estate and hedge funds to diversify portfolios, reduce volatility and construct portfolios that match their longer-term investment objectiv ...

Ascalon nabs sales execs from Triple-A Partners

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... 2007 and before that he was Pengana Managers managing director. Prior to that he was Colonial First State head of hedge funds, where he oversaw the launch and management of the manager's hedge fund of funds product. "Having one of Australia's most experienced ...