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Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global hedge funds have hit the ground running this year, returning 0.42 per cent in January while the S&P 500 Total Return and MSCI World Equity indices lost more than eight per cent. According to a VanMac report, the Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Global managed futures giant Superfund sets up an investment centre in Sydney, open to the public, to help investors understand how managed futures work. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund has grown to manage more than US$1.4 billion in assets ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... their equilibrium level. Government intervention distorts prices. It would merely slow the pace at which house prices discover what is fair. Another problem with the plan is that most US homeowners - because of falling house prices - have negative equity ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ASIC has extended the ban on covered short selling of financial stocks until 6 March, opposing the move of its UK counterpart FSA, which lifted its shorting ban last week. The regulator is concerned about lifting the ban after the Financial Services ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Australian fund managers with an eye on tech stocks dodged the Satyam scandal, with two local fund managers reporting they had no investments in the firm. Fiducian Portfolio Services investment manager, Conrad Burge, said the firm's India Fund did not ...

APRA to review exec pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Australian financial services firms saved by the government deposit guarantee are about to discover the political price they will be expected to pay with APRA announcing details of its executive remuneration monitoring program. The irony however is ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... de-leveraging and cleansing process is far from over. Investors, like starry-eyed children turning into grown-ups, will discover that Santa is not real and that their stockings remain filled with toxic debts. This week the central banks of the Eurozone ...

Hedge funds hit by shorting ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
More than half of Australian hedge fund managers, representing a total $24.7 billion in funds, said the short selling ban would materially impact their ability to implement their strategy, with six managers considering suspending or closing their fund's ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The debate on chief executive pay heats up after the discovery that senior executives in many of the banks the government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
AMP Bank, NSW Teachers Credit Union (NTCU) and Victorian Teachers Credit Union (VTCU) are the three institutions that received the thumbs up in a new report on First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs) by consumer body CHOICE. FHSAs are deposit savings accounts ...