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Alternatives charter assoc heads Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA) when he visited Australia last week. Asche said the CAIAA defines alternative investments as anything that is not a traditional long-only investment. The broader more global focus of these assets is also why their ...

Credit Suisse nabs AMF stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... participate with Credit Suisse in AMF's future growth and be represented on its board. Overall, Credit Suisse's alternative investments business has a number of similar relationships with international companies including Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company ...

Alternatives: shock absorbers of sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
As markets turn from bad to worse, alternative investments have proven to be the keystone of solid returns when they turned into shock absorbers protecting investors from capital loss, said Select Asset Management. Since August last year, the sub-prime ...

BNP Paribas wins Ashton custody

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... appeal to Australian investors." Ashton is a privately owned investment management group which focuses on alternative investments. The firm creates global portfolios using a capital preservation and the generation of positive risk adjusted returns. Ashton's ...

CFS GAM rides $1bn infra wave

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... infrastructure funds and launch another fund in the European market. James O'Leary, CFS GAM head or property and alternative investments, said the growth in funds under management in its infrastructure investment business reflected its skill and a rising ...

BNY Mellon taps distressed debt

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... 2006, which was in an environment of historically low and still declining default rates, Mellon Global Alternative Investments (MGAI) designed the fund to incorporate a full cycle approach. The credit crisis offered more opportunities to invest in debt ...

HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... businesses including Halbis (active management specialist) and Sinopia (quantitative specialist). HSBC Alternative Investments' fund of hedge funds and tailor-made institutional portfolios of hedge funds will also be made available in Australia. Genochio ...

Grant Samuel buys Tribeca stake

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... multi-affiliated funds management business focusing on Australian Equities, International Equities and Alternative Investments. Under a partnership with global equity specialist boutique Epoch Investment Partners, Grant Samuel recently launched their ...

Ben Davis bags CIMA scholarship

... the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) acknowledged that the unprecedented demand for alternative investments in the past two years has redesigned the investment analysis landscape - inspiring industry leaders to go back to school to ...

Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... asset managers. According to the Mercer 2007 Manager Search Trends report, the number of searches for alternative investments rose by roughly 20 per cent on the previous year. Real estate was the most popular search, which rose five-fold during the year ...