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AQUA II exemptions unfairly favour ASX: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... Investments Commission (ASIC), the FSC said the relief ASIC proposes to grant the AMFS should be "provided on a competitively neutral basis - that is to issuers, platforms and other market participants via a secure electronic means, not just in relation ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... serves up an opportunity to short companies likely to post disappointing results, according to Pengana Captial market neutral portfolio manager Phillip Boustridge. Market neutral equity strategies combine long and short positions to hedge out the overall ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... portfolios. It has also recently been made available to Australian institutional investors. Best described as a market neutral multi-asset fund, it aims to deliver 5% above the cash rate by deploying an array of approaches. With market risk hedged out ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... bad press image, many hedge fund managers avoid defining themselves as such, instead labeling their strategies as market neutral, low beta, macro, absolute return or long/short.

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Is this a dead cat bounce or the early stages of another move higher? To be sure, it's only been three days...three straight days that the S&P 500 has turned its downtrend into a trend upwards. Even accounting for ...

CIO confidence slumps to nine-month low

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... Index. In the June quarter, the index stood at seven from a range of -100 to 100, where a score of zero is considered neutral. This is down from 35 for the March quarter and eight for December 2012. Despite a recent sell-off in global equity markets ...

Standard Life Inv advises caution on Japan

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... depends on the Japanese Government adopting further structural reform. "Many investors have hurriedly moved from Light to Neutral in their allocations to Japanese equities and are debating the approach to real estate and bonds," said Standard Life Investments ...

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... (AAII) investor sentiment survey, dated 13 February 2013, showed that only 42.3% of investors were bullish, 29.0% were neutral and 28.7% bearish. A few more good days for the S&P and we're there. Then we get to find out whether Buffet bought beans because ...

Policy team reshuffles at ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... must leverage into our broad sector policy committees and working groups to ensure that positioning is robust and sector neutral," she said. To achieve the most effective outcomes during this complex time of increased policy issues and information coordination ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... so that the greater the percentage allocation to equities, the higher risk appetite or confidence. A reading of 100 is neutral - the level at which investors are neither increasing nor decreasing their long-term allocations to risky assets. "2013 has ...