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State Street wins QIC mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... Susan Buckley, QIC managing director of global fixed income on selecting State Street. The GFI Alpha Fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed-income global macro markets and credit derivatives. Since its entry into the Ireland market in 1996 ...

Treasury buys stake in two boutiques

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Treasury Group has expanded its boutique line-up, investing in absolute return manager AR Capital Management and Scotland-based global thematic equities manager Aubrey Capital Management. The deal means Treasury Group will own 30 per cent of each fund ...

Industry awards top hedge funds in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Taking the top award as Australian Hedge Fund of the Year was Fortitude Capital whose fund, the Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust, returned 11.55 per cent in the year to August. There were seven other categories (see below), including 'Best Investor ...

NAB buys Lodestar Capital stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
NAB's direct asset management business, nabinvest, has bought a 33 per cent stake in long-term absolute return boutique fund manager, Lodestar Capital Partners. Lodestar Capital Partners investment management team owns the remaining stake in the business ...

MLC tweaks diversified funds strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... said the firm was introducing a strategic overlay that is similar to the one implemented in the MLC Long-Term Absolute Return portfolio (LTAR). "As part of LTAR, we've always had a medium term asset allocation process, which has performed well over the ...

K2 benefits from planner focus

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... years," he said. "Now people understand the difference between a relative return against the benchmark and an absolute return." The fund manager's financial planning strategy was highlighted when the K2 Select International Fund moved from monthly liquidity ...

K2 fund moves to daily pricing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... can improve their liquidity despite market pressures, K2 Asset Management has changed its pricing policy for its absolute return fund from monthly to daily. This means the K2 Select International Absolute Return will now have a buy/sell spread of plus ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Australian Christian Superannuation (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... discussions with several firms that see the appeal of the strategy as an alternative to other global equities offerings, absolute return and hedge funds. "Some of the issues we've had in the past about asset classes, for example hedge funds, is illiquidity. ...

CitySuper appoints $60m to Wellington

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... terminated a $10 million investment with State Street Global Advisors, and a further $20 million was dropped from BGI's absolute return fund. Rundle said the fund would undertake a yearly review of it investment strategy in August, when the fund would ...