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Passive hedge fund investing in vogue

... funds now [US$5 billion] were from 2004 to 2006," said Oliver Schupp, the US based managing director of alternative investments for Credit Suisse Securities. Schupp said the fund, which hugs the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index, charges a flat ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... Australian market is very sophisticated and strategically well placed to capitalize on the global trend toward alternative investments."

AIMA boosts executive committee

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... promote best practice, and liaise with regulators and other organisations to ensure the responsible use of alternative investments. Ivey said that in the past financial year, Australia's A$62.7 billion hedge funds industry had grown rapidly to become ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

... pension funds in Canada, it is also one of the most successful thanks to de Bever's pioneering role in using alternative investments to boost the fund's returns. Proof to the pudding is that Ontario's has posted an 11.7 per cent rate of return per year ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... study, covering topics such as ethical and professional standards, equity, debt and derivatives analysis, alternative investments, financial statement analysis, quantitative methods, economics, corporate finance, portfolio management, risk management ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... diversification. It's a complete misnomer to say its high risk." Ryan Pearson, senior vice president of GreenwichVan Alternative Investments, said, "Hedge funds are not necessarily a high risk play, its just a business model. They are not just there ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... sale. As the local market gets flooded with money directed from compulsory superannuation legislation, alternative investments are being sourced from overseas on an increasingly large scale. Australian Fund managers have invested $7.2 million in the ...

HSBC alternatives eyes off Australian entry

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
HSBC Bank's Hong Kong based alternative investments group is the next in line among an array of international hedge fund managers lining up to enter the Australian market. Speaking at last month's Portfolio Construction Forum conference, senior director ...

Alternatives appetite triggers Russell re-shuffle

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... team member in response to the increasingly aggressive appetite of Australian superannuation funds for alternative investments. Russell's director of alternative assets and strategies, Dr Andrew Goddard, said Russell's institutional clients are building ...

MLC promotes two in ThreeSixty

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... two key internal promotions in its ThreeSixty research team ahead of plans to increase its research into alternative investments, at the same time extending its use of research from external providers. Lisa Boyce, former NSW state manager for MLC's business ...