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Plato fund to shutter

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... strategy meanwhile. Plato has three other strategies: Australian shares income, global shares income and global market neutral.

Pendal awards registry mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... recent registry change, Regal Funds Management notified investors in four funds (Atlantic Absolute Return, Tasman Market Neutral, Small Companies and Long Short Equity) that it was changing its registry provider from HSBC Fund Services to Boardroom Pty ...

Future Fund falls 3.4% in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... rates, options -- that added a lot of value and the hedge fund program was broadly flat. It's designed to be a market neutral strategy. There were a few defensive funds in there for exactly that purpose and they did perform as expected but broadly ...

Melbourne hedge fund quietly folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... division and backed by a family office is currently in the process of winding up. Qato Capital had three funds, in market neutral, long/short fund, and active share style. It was backed by single family office Larkfield Funds Management. It won a couple ...

Prodigy folds, two boutiques to shut

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... Contango. Equus Point Capital was set up by Rob Stewart, formerly of CFSGAM and Challenger and Toby Masters. They ran a market neutral fund benchmarked to cash. It has returned -4.03% so far this financial year, to February end. Prodigy was an 80/20 ...

Boutique fund manager launches LIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... a range of investment strategies and backed by long-term capital, he added. The primary exposure will be to the market neutral strategy, a high conviction, fundamental strategy that seeks to maximise returns with moderate risk and little correlation ...

Watermark closes chapter on global equities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... global equity strategy exit and bid farewell to several directors. Watermark's Global Leaders Fund (WGF) and Market Neutral Fund (WMK) were removed from the ASX at the close of trade yesterday. The funds had about $72.8 million and $69.5 million ...

Mixed year for local market neutral funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
Australian market neutral funds returned a disappointing -3.2% last year on average but the style still remains an important portfolio diversifier, according to Zenith head of equities Quan Nguyen. The -3.2% after fee returns are roughly in line with ...

Watermark pulls out of global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Watermark will now concentrate on two core strategies in Australian shares; one being equity long/short and the other market neutral. Watermark first began investing in global equities four years ago. Watermark chief investment officer Justin Braitling ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... unconstrained resources strategy was rebooted as a LIC that led a $250 million IPO. Last month, former Macquarie market neutral managers launched Firetrail's, $304.5 million IPO. After all the product launches, the ASX now has double the number of ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:01PM
Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:30AM
The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:13PM
L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   11:50AM
Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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