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UBS nabs head of Investment Strategy from CFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... Westpac Investment Management and Credit Suisse First Boston. "We have had significant traction with clients for our absolute return, multi-asset and risk solutions as well as our recently launched Tactical Beta Funds in Australia," GIS global head strategist ...

Praemium adds Easton AM to SMA platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... trends across all asset classes. "The Global Tactical model provides advisers and clients with a 'hedge fund-like' absolute return strategy within the SMA space that broadens the investable universe for advisers beyond the normal long-only Australian ...

New AllianceBernstein fund offers solution for Fed tapering

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
AllianceBernstein is preparing to launch a global fixed income fund with an absolute return objective to the Australian retail market. With the end of the US Federal Reserve's US$85 billion a month quantitative easing policy looming on the horizon ...

Hedge fund maestro Hintze voices concern over regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Tighter regulation poses the greatest challenge to the hedge fund industry, according to Australian industry legend Sir Michael Hintze. Speaking at the Alternative Investment Management Association's Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney this week, Hintze said ...

Franklin Templeton bond upgraded despite negative quarter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... Templeton, said: "We are very pleased with van Eyk's rating. We believe it's a reflection of our unique and successful absolute return investment approach and more than decade-long track record of delivering positive returns for advisors and their clients ...

Performance fees boost K2 profits in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... ASX announcement K2 said each of its funds had made a healthy return in the financial year. The K2 Australian Absolute Return Fund returned 26.1% in the full year to 30 June versus 20.7% from the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index. The K2 Asian Absolute ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... bond markets, or find a middle ground with a combination of short-dated investment grade credit strategies and absolute return bond strategies," Fletcher said. While markets have reacted negatively to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's recent comments ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
The creator of the multi-billion dollar Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund Euan Munro has left the company to join UK life firm Aviva as chief executive. As global head of multi-asset investing and fixed income at ...

Zenith recommends BT alpha fixed interest fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... retail market," adding that "a growing number of managers have indicated that they are likely to offer funds in the absolute return style, fixed interest segment in the near future." This is a response to concerns over rising rates and the likely negative ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... managers avoid defining themselves as such, instead labeling their strategies as market neutral, low beta, macro, absolute return or long/short.