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Market provides opportunities for absolute return investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... in developed economies predicted to impact growth rates, creating a higher chance of more frequent recessions. "Absolute return investing offers the potential for consistent, positive returns, providing investment managers with more scope to diversify ...

Perpetual hires ex-port manager to equities team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... Skamvougeras on Perpetual's Share Plus Long Short Fund along with responsibilities on the development of a new absolute return equity products. Aboud worked with Skamvougeras once before at Ellerston Capital from 2006 to 2009 where they ran a long/short ...

Risk focus needed for sustainable investing: MLC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... strategy and using a highly diversified credit portfolio across a full investment cycle. "Further, more sophisticated absolute return strategies and equity income strategies may be extremely useful in providing an additional source of relatively more ...

Family office aligns with hedge fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... has an investment team in Sydney. SGI said ARM holds a significant investment in a portfolio of international absolute return funds and will provide specialist investment services to SGI in addition to taking a placement of 26.25 million newly issued ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard Endowment Fund's assets, has again defied its critics and posted a stunning 21.4% return for the 12 months to end June 2011, bringing their 20-year average annual return to almost 13%. The ...

Equity based strategies hedge fund winners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... held last night in Sydney. Other winners were Evergreen Capital, winning Best Emerging Manager; Best Long Short & Absolute return fund was awarded to Optimal Australia Absolute Trust and the inaugural Best Fixed Income & Credit Fund went to the Kapstream ...

Bennelong absolute return fund earns top rating

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
The Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund has received a 'highly recommended' rating from Zenith Investment Partners. The fund is the product of a joint venture between Bennelong Funds Management and the newly established Kardinia Capital, which is ...

Media Super $30m alpha mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... pursues a more suitable strategy for the modern, volatile market. The mandate was invested in the Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Strategy, which Media Super selected for its approach to extracting alpha in volatile markets, using merger arbitrage ...

Bennelong lands new fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... who lost the two portfolio managers of the fund to Bennelong in July. From September 1 this year, the Herschel Absolute Return Fund will be open to new investors and renamed the Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund after Herschel transferred the trusteeship ...

Money moves from listed managed investments to ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... managed investments (LMI) monthly update for July showed listed investment companies, infrastructure funds and absolute return funds were the big losers with capital flowing out. Listed absolute return funds suffered a 19.1% reduction in total market ...