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Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... Fund Winner Kaiser Trading Fund SPC Finalist Apeiron Global Macro Fund Finalist BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund - Class D Best Investor supporting Australian Managers Winner Telstra Super Best Fund of Fund 2008 Winner Investor Select Advisors Global ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund returned 1.68 per cent last month, more than double its benchmark's 0.67 per cent gain. But for a fund with an impressive two-year track record, only a small pool of investors has heard about it. The fund was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... PSI) for August. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the national accounts data for the June quarter. AWB Ltd A-class shareholders will meet to consider corporate constitutional reform. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed slightly ...

NAB Super divests direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... objectives] for the sale are to reduce the property overweight of the fund, increase the diversification of the property class and increase the potential for future performance from the asset class," the fund wrote in a newsletter to members. Despite ...

NAB Group Super axes cash plus

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
NAB Group Super has morphed its cash plus option into a pure cash option - closing the strategy's previous exposure to fixed interest, Australian shares and property. The board Trustee's decision to change the corporate fund's cash plus option into ...

Credit Suisse nabs AMF stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
Credit Suisse Group has acquired an 80 per cent stake of National Bank of Canada-owned Asset Management Finance Corp. Credit Suisse confirmed in a statement that it paid $446 million for over 80 per cent of AMF. The Canadian company provides capital ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Leading fund manager QIC has decided to label "commodities" as a separate class in its portfolios after it observed that traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found ...

Deutsche smashes Euro ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Deutsche Bank's European based exchange traded funds (ETF) platform raised more than $25 billion of assets in 18 months, making it the third largest ETF provider in Europe by assets under management. The bank's platform, db x-trackers, now has a 14 ...

Diversified funds on the wane?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
Money is flowing out of diversified 'single manager' funds as multi-managers gain popularity, according to Lonsec. Lonsec's latest report on diversified funds found the sector's funds under management (FUM) continued to fall, with a 12.6 per cent drop ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... Brown, Santos, Iluka Resources, Thakral Holdings, and Adelaide Brighton Ltd. AWB Ltd will hold a shareholders meeting for A Class shareholders. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed firmly in the black after a stronger commodity prices drove ...