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Prime Value launches concentrated equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... preservation but feel the potential for 100% cash allocation fills a market need and reflects our mandate for absolute returns over the medium term." The Prime Value Opportunities Fund has attracted seed money and has been investing since 5 November ...

Investment in alternative assets on the rise globally

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... continue. "This suggests that investors are seeing private, direct investments as an attractive source of alternative returns with less volatility than long-term equity and bond investments, despite the often illiquid nature of direct investments such ...

Bureaucratic processes hinder infrastructure investment: ISN

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... infrastructure," ISN Chair Steve Bracks said. Bracks said that, as not for profit organisations without shareholders expecting quick returns, industry funds are perfectly positioned to invest in more stable 'real world' assets. However, in a new report ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Japan out of a double-decade period characterised by deflation, an overvalued currency and disappointing equity market returns. Since the stimulus measures were introduced, the Nikkei has rallied nearly 50% and the currency has depreciated from 80 yen ...

VC funds outperform, punch above their weight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... regarding fees paid to venture capital funds managers. However, for investors able to select the right VC managers the returns have been attractive. Separate research by Cambridge Associates found that while one year returns for VC funds in 2012 lagged ...

Morphic global equities fund reaches $25m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... from $5 million in assets under management to more than $25 million since inception in August, 2012. The fund achieved returns of 2.8% in April, 2013, but it underperformed the MSCI All Countries Total Return Net Index in AUD benchmark by 0.52%. Addressed ...

Liquidity concerns push CSC to change target allocation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... to lift its liquidity levels as an insulation against what the fund expects will be the effects of future lower future returns. "The investment objective for the default option has changed because CSC expects that, for the same level of risk taking ...

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... The pressure on fund managers to outperform benchmarks in the short term could be preventing them from achieving high returns, UniSuper chairman and founding director of Third Link Investment Managers Chris Cuffe said. "It is hard to get alpha and I ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... of volatility as it is typically understood by risk-aware investment strategies is that it assumes a normal pattern of returns, such as that described by the bell curve diagram of probable outcomes commonly used in statistics," said Michael DePalma ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... over 5, 7 and 10-years to 30 April this year, although it is worth noting that the funds are measured against absolute returns and are benchmark-agnostic. Compared to other international equities funds, their funds placed top quartile or near top quartile ...