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ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... High Yield ETF with $23 million. While the totals are not as great, the BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear (Hedge Fund), which profits when the Australian sharemarket falls, and the BetaShares Geared Australian Equity Fund (Hedge Fund), which ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... again looming for Australia brought to us by the Sydney Morning Herald's ( SMH ) report the other day about Hong Kong hedge fund Kima Capital's portfolio manager Alex Wallis statement that, "Australia is destined for a difficult recession at worst or ...

Ellerston named hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
The Ellerston Australian Market Neutral Fund has taken home the 2015 Australian Hedge Fund of the Year award. Hedge funds of all styles and sizes were recognised at the Hedge Funds Rock event in Sydney's glitzy Ivy Ballroom. Ellerston also collected ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Treasury reforms, financial innovation and growing demand is driving interest in Australia's hedge fund industry, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association. Currently managing $96.9 ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has launched its $700 million Aberdeen Alternative Strategies Fund (AASF). By using what Aberdeen described as an "Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regulated investment structure," the ...

BetaShares launches two new funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... in the US, weighted by market capitalisation," hedged to Australian dollars. The BetaShares US Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund - Currency Hedge, meanwhile, is designed to negatively correlate with US share market returns so as to protect against declines. ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Associates, Ray Dalio, expects the Fed to QE". "Never mind raising interest rates - Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported record profit and assets under management as investors find growth in alternatives. The manager reported an underlying net profit after tax of $10.4 million for the year to 30 June 2014, 68% up from $6.2 ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... subset of managers that probably aren't the best." There are no figures that show changes of inflows for the overall hedge fund sector. But the ASX July 2015 report showed that market capitalisation for 'absolute return funds', which includes hedge funds ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... consulting and business development. He was most recently at MSCI New York, where he was senior relationship manager of hedge fund sales and MSCI index sales. Prior to leaving Australia for the US, he held senior roles in relationship management and ...