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REST deploys $225m in mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... $75 million was pumped into Putnam Advisory Company. REST however also redeemed $350 million from the Mesirow Absolute Return Fund. Approximately $150 million of the proceeds from Mesirow were reinvested with existing managers in the absolute return ...

APFC seeks absolute return director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) is looking to hire a director of investments for its absolute return and risk management division. The director will be posted at the APFC offices in Alaska's capital city of Juneau, population approximately ...

Alaska fund appoints $310 debt mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... Meanwhile, the Alaska Permanent board of trustees also transferred a $250 million mandate of existing debt-based absolute return strategies from Crestlines distressed opportunity mandate to Crestlines absolute return mandate. "This transfer of exposure ...

QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... opened the firm's Global Fixed Interest Alpha fund to international investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more than 13 ...

Sunsuper terminates $200m Everest mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Sunsuper has axed a $200 million alternative investments mandate with Everest Financial Group following a fall in the firm's funds under management and staff numbers. Everest, which has $1.1 billion in funds under management at the end of March, said ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... it lost 5.62 per cent, a wide distance to the benchmark's positive return of 12.3 per cent. Both property and absolute return funds fared badly, posting 2 per cent and 3.9 per cent losses respectively. For private equity, VFMC lost 22 per cent for the ...

Northern Trust appoints investment risk head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... he developed Kapstream's proprietary risk systems and was responsible for risk budgeting and analysis for the absolute return global fixed income strategy. He also headed the investment analytics group at Challenger Financial Services Group, Sydney ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... line with overall markets during a bull market while preserving capital during the tough times is at the heart of absolute return investing," said Oscar Martinis, HFA Asset Management managing director. "This stability and consistency is a direct result ...

More room to grow: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... with Vianova Asset Management, which partnered with AUI in 2005. While Vianova specialises in benchmark unaware, absolute return fixed interest investments, Bryant said he is not closed to opportunities that might arise from global fixed interest managers. ...

Tasplan axes $280m State Street mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... and that CFS was the "stronger manager in that area", said Cassidy. Tasplan had also terminated a $10.8 million absolute return investment mandate with Warakiri Asset Management.