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CCIV draws mixed reception: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
Australia's Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle (CCIV) initiative received mixed responses from the global asset management community planning to ramp up cross-border strategies in the next five years, State Street research shows. Of the 250 ...

New $500m boutique manager partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... has extensive experience in proprietary trading and short-term momentum investing. Most recently, he was a partner at hedge fund Pittwater Capital. Stewart was a Challenger portfolio manager and a CFSGAM head of index funds and asset allocation. He has ...

Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
An ASX-listed alternative investment manager has entered into non-binding term sheet with New York-based early stage venture capital firm Scout Ventures for a stake in a proposed US$50 million fund. Auctus Alternative Investments will acquire up to ...

Global fund manager replaces COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
A US fund manager with a distribution alliance in Australia announced its chief operating officer and co-founder is retiring with a replacement taking over immediately. After 14 years as president and COO at Epoch Investment Partners, Timothy T. Taussig ...

Franklin Templeton appoints two distribution heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... majority stakeholder in K2 Advisors in November 2012. K2 Advisors was established in 1994. K2 Advisors focuses solely on hedge fund investing - including multi and single-strategy hedge fund portfolios.

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative Risk Premia (SARP), also called Systematic Global Macro, uses three investing ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... responsible entity for the Australian unit trust, Barham added. The group is also looking at bringing its recently launched hedge fund strategy, the River and Mercantile Systematic Global Macro Fund, to Australian clients.

Blue Sky denies private equity selloff

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Shortly after announcing its domestic retail hedge fund would be wound up, Blue Sky assured investors it has no intention of selling its private equity business. KPMG is currently conducting an independent review of all Blue Sky-managed assets, although ...

Former Janus exec to lead APAC distribution for US hedge fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... of Australasia at Janus Capital is taking the Asia Pacific distribution reins at a US$58 billion Los Angeles-based hedge fund manager. John Landau will join Causeway Capital Management and build out its Asia Pacific distribution footprint; Causeway said ...

Blue Sky short seller launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
One of the men behind the US hedge fund which successfully shorted Blue Sky Alternative Investments is starting an activist investment fund of his own. Former Glaucus Research director and chief investment officer at Glaucus Investments, Soren Aandahl ...