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Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
Mine Wealth + Wellbeing will more than double its investment team by June next year in a move set to "encourage greater innovation" and deliver greater investment capability. The $10 billion industry superannuation fund announced it will be growing ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
Towers Watson has appointed three people to its global hedge fund research division, including a senior investment consultant in Sydney. Aongus O'Gorman joins Towers Watson's team in Sydney from boutique consultancy Round Tower Solutions, where he was ...

Administrator buys Asia-Pacific hedge fund business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
The fund branch of an Australian boutique administrator has acquired the Asia-Pacific hedge fund administration business of Alter Domus. MainstreamBPO announced its US$1 million initial purchase price to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... Sowerby that Blue Sky's water investments could be classified as infrastructure and that if the company was able to add a hedge fund capability it would have all four pillars of an alternatives fund manager. "That was when the lightbulb went on and I ...

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. ...