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FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... by Lonsec, will provide wholesale investors with access to a small collection of CTAs, with the universal access to hedge funds is more applicable to what FRM offers institutions. Currently the fund has seven managers. Keary said FRM has been in talks ...

Performance fees more popular: Morningstar

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... kept a fifth of the profits from successful voyages, a piece of history invoked by Alfred Winslow Jones, inventor of hedge funds, when he took 20 per cent of the profits. Research house Morningstar said the same thing is happening now as large-cap Australian ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... 2011, featured 461 senior executives from around the world, of which 108 were asset managers. Others came from banks, hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms.

Former Astarra investment manager pleads guilty

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... received in excess of $6.4 million in undisclosed payments by placing investor funds into ASF and ASP in overseas hedge funds. The monies Richard placed in the overseas hedge funds had been raised by the responsible entity of ASF, Trio Capital Limited ...

Hedge research warns against poor risk analytics

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
New research from the US on hedge funds suggest managers with smarter risk analytics embedded within their investment approach will emerge as this year's mandate winners. In a January US survey of investor concerns, three out of four respondents want ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
Fees for private equity, hedge funds, infrastructure and real estate investments have all declined this year - and the timing couldn't be worse for alternatives as many funds struggle to assert their diversification credentials, post-GFC. According ...

FUM hits $1.37tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... returns means money is continuing to flow out of the market. Rainmaker said the rank order of asset class growth were hedge funds (up 37 per cent), international property (up 17 per cent), Australian fixed interest (up 12 per cent), international fixed ...

Astarra director faces five years jail, $220k fine

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... involved in causing the Astarra Strategic Fund and the Astarra Superannuation Plan to place investor monies in overseas hedge funds, in circumstances where he would personally receive a significant portion of the monies for his own benefit and for the ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... infrastructure investing and said that timber looks attractive "if you pick the right spots." He was less enthusiastic about hedge funds, arguing that more often than not "they behave like the beta of the equity market." De Bever was at pains to point ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... immediately turned to Portugal and Spain," Mr Herring said. "I'd expect this might go on for a little while as the hedge funds go around looking for weakness between the bonds and the debts that are owed by these countries. "Obviously, the EU and IMF ...