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No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... the only hedge fund that has given up altogether. According to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. a total of 775 hedge funds were liquidated last year - the most since 2009. I'm afraid that until we get greater clarity on Greece - hopefully after ...

BlackRock appoints head of alternatives

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... our position in Australia, one of the most advanced and established markets in the region," said Rick Arney, head of hedge funds for BlackRock alternative investors. "Demand from our clients for alternative investments is increasing as they seek to capture ...

Australia lags on commodities investments

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... definitely in the US and Europe, commodities through futures are really becoming the third asset class over real estate and hedge funds," added Jody Gunzberg, director, commodity indices, referring to results from a Barclays Capital survey conducted ...

J.P Morgan launches automated fund platform

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... for greater efficiency in placing and tracking transactions. Over 80% of transactions for unlisted unit trusts and hedge funds in Australia are carried out manually by fax, telephone or spreadsheet, processes which are labour-intensive, slow and subject ...

Emerging managers add twice the alpha

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
The performance of emerging manager hedge funds is roughly twice that of established manager hedge funds over the past 20 years, according to new research. This is despite large hedge funds attracting most of the inflows, said Peter Urbani, formerly ...

APRA: Third line of defence in Trio-style fraud

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... backlash that followed. "In 2003 APRA alerted all trustees advising them of risks associated with investments in opaque hedge funds. "The response to this advice was generally negative, with hedge fund managers' cristising APRA and even an AFR editorial ...

MSCI risk model targets volatility

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... doing." MSCI is a provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance ...

The revival of stock picking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... stuck in the middle." Fauchier has removed from its portfolio such 'diversified' managers, instead replacing them with hedge funds that take quite high conviction, concentrated bets in areas of dispersion with up to 12% positions in individual stocks. ...

Hedge funds outperform: Research

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... titled 'The Value of the Hedge Fund Industry to Investors, Markets and the Broader Economy' found that, per annum, hedge funds returned 9.07% on average after fees between 1994 and 2011. This is compared to 7.18% for global stocks, 6.25% for global bonds ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... Australia's de facto SWF the Future Fund, holds only about 5% of its FUM in private equity instead showing a preference for hedge funds to gain its alternatives exposure.