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Former GSJBW partner starts hedge fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
Tim Hannon, the former head of real estate at Goldman Sachs, has set up a boutique fund management firm and launched the Evergreen Capital Australian Equities Return Fund. Hannon has 17 years of experience in investment and securities markets, including ...

K2 wins dealer group mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... invested in the Australian equities fund. Aside from the recent $20 million institutional mandate, the listed absolute return fund manager is also continuing to work with asset consultants. "We've got two or three asset consultants that like what we ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... board for two small cap mandates worth more than $200 million each. The two-day meeting finished with the fund's absolute return investment policy being changed to clarify different types of investment that may be included in the fund and a complete ...

Amundi rebrands funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... rebranded its alternative, global fixed interest and global emerging market equities funds. This means the CAAM VAR8 Absolute Return fund has been rebranded Amundi VAR8 Absolute Return fund and the CAAM Global Bond fund has been renamed Amundi Global ...

Hall charts new value investing model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... enough. "Given all those negatives that are out there, 15 per cent is going to be a really decent and respectable absolute return going forward," he said.

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... class, returning over 11 per cent and beating the benchmark by over nine per cent over the same time period. The absolute return asset class also provided some good returns for the group, returning more than six per cent and outperforming the benchmark ...

Ascalon buys more stake in H3

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Ascalon Capital Managers has acquired another 15 per cent in absolute return fund manager H3 Global Advisors, increasing its overall equity position to 45 per cent. Terms were not disclosed. "This further increase in our equity stake reflects our confidence ...

CAAM expands distribution

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... available on Australian platforms - the CAAM Global Bond Fund, CAAM Global Emerging Markets Fund and the CAAM VAR8 Absolute Return Fund.

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... lack of uniformity is leading to confusion among adviser and end customers and will ultimately impact adoption." Absolute return, arbitrage strategies, derivative strategies, portable alpha, short selling and inverse strategies are just a few defined ...

Frontier reweighs alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... up for 2010. "We are now looking at the opportunities in quite a number of alternatives, like private equity, absolute return strategies (including hedge funds) and infrastructure (particularly unlisted property)," he said. Opportunities where Frontier ...