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Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... fund manager said it hopes to launch two new funds in early 2011 - the Asian Value Trust (ASV) and Global Ethical Trust -Hedged (GEH).

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... was forecast at 6.6 per cent gross with 14.5 per cent volatility with unhedged strategies to remain less volatile than hedged due to the strong Australian dollar likely to continue to be strongly correlated with equity market movements. Within its International ...

Global equities hurt NZ Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... in global fixed income and 7.5 per cent is in timber. The fund's foreign currency exposure was approximately 82 per cent hedged back into NZ dollars. In the year to 31 august, the fund returned 3.3 per cent. Since inception the fund has retuned 5.85 ...

Fully hedged funds are the past decade's winners: Zenith

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... recently released international shares sector report, Zenith Investment partners found that in the past decade, a fully hedged approach to currency exposure would have provided the best returns. During the decade, the Australian dollar appreciated over ...

Insto flows boost TRG results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... total FUM. Rob Sullivan, the group's head of distribution, told Financial Standard that because the company's funds are not hedged for offshore investors, strength in the Australian dollar over the period detracted from FUM. Sullivan said that underlying ...

AMP Capital launches global infra fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... investment. Additionally, the fund will be benchmarked against the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure Index AUD Hedged and the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure Index (AUD) respectively. As of March 31, AMP Capital Investors had $96 ...

NZ Super pips Aus through intl equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... property and timber, among others. At the end of June, the fund's foreign currency exposure was approximately 77.3 per cent hedged back to the New Zealand dollar. The objective of the NZ Super Fund is to "pre-fund" part of the future cost of New Zealand ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... for the year to March and lost more than 3 per cent in excess returns for the three-year period. By contrast, the median hedged global quant manager posted excess returns of more than 7 per cent for the year to March and no excess return for the three-year ...

GVI launches unhedged global industrial fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... overseas equity markets. "Conversely though, the subsequent equity rally and rise in AUD since March 2009 has meant that being hedged was decidedly more advantageous." Chen said that investors needed to make a number of considerations before deciding ...

Australian dollar separates winners and losers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... has fallen 11 per cent in just the past three weeks. Murray Brewer, Australian head at T.Rowe Price, said investors in un-hedged international equity funds are being rewarded. "If you're an un-hedged investor, for once in a long time you'll be really ...