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Lonsec rates Ashton-Paulson funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... 'recommended' rating. The Ashton-Paulson Recovery fund, Ashton-Paulson Credit Opportunities fund and the Ashton-Paulson Event Driven fund all received the Lonsec rating. Although the funds have only been open on the Australian market since May 2009 ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... expenses. The index holds a range of hedge fund strategies including equity long/short, global macro, market neutral, event driven and fixed income arbitrage. The ETF also invests in a number of ETFs on the market to build the portfolio and does not ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... neutral funds leading the charge gaining 1.8 per cent on average. Convertible and fixed income arbitrage managers and event driven strategies posted gains but the best performing sub-group was special situation funds netting 2.3 per cent. Meanwhile ...

DWS hedge offers daily liquidity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... Fitzgerald. The existing DWS Strategic Value Fund invests across three broad absolute return strategies - Relative Value, Event Driven, Long/Short Equity - and many sub-strategies in around 15-35 hedge funds from around the world. This fund has achieved ...

Hedge funds post worst Q1

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index fell 2.78 per cent in this year's first quarter. The report found equity hedge, event driven and emerging market funds suffered heavy losses after volatile global equity markets, a lack of market liquidity and "severe ...

Eclectic looks for IMPACT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Eclectic Capital Management is an Australian equities absolute return funds manager that develops long/short and event driven strategies.

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... sheets - it will take until the second or third quarter to pan out." Dunning-Gribble said the firm's weighting to event driven and long/short equities would be reduced this year. "Hedge fund returns have largely held up during the credit crisis which ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly target volatility of 10 per cent. It uses investment processes of existing regional multi-strategy ...

Asian hedge fund to target Australian assets

... Fund, which is a diversified absolute return fund that incorporates derivatives, convergence trading, arbitrage, event driven strategies and long/short equities. The new fund is to be managed by Tim McGovern and John Corr of Australian-based Fortitude ...

Four stars to Goldman Sachs JB Were Multi-Strategy Fund

... that focus on directional bias to markets in the portfolio, while a second share is apportioned to a group using an event driven strategy to boost return potential, and a third portion is issued to a group employing relative values strategies to neutralise ...