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Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... looking for a buffer to their rapidly depleting portfolios are now paying attention to BT Investment Management's Absolute Return Currency Fund - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up to 40 per cent. Joe Bracken ...

Everest B&B appoints RE

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... late last month. The Alternative Investment Trust provides institutional and retail investors with exposure to absolute return funds and direct investments in subordinated debt. Vicki Allen, Trust Company executive general manager of institutional services ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... also transferred the distressed debt portfolio managed by Crestline Investors from domestic fixed income into its absolute return strategies portfolio. "The Trustees determined that the portfolio's characteristics made it more naturally fit in the alternative ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... on the back of "strong liquidity drivers existing in the GCC region and increasing demand from institutions for absolute return investment vehicles that could provide returns uncorrelated from major market trends," he said.

BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... Connecticut based AQR Capital Management was awarded the global equities mandate in April 2006. AQR's flagship Absolute Return Fund performed poorly, losing almost 12 per cent of its value in November, an overseas news service reported.

Long-only turmoil pushes investors to hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... hedge funds, professional investors have figured out what we have been saying all along - that a well-managed absolute return fund is the safest place to be in a volatile market."

Japan's pensions turn to alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... strategy and planning to reduce their domestic equities allocation in favour of more alternative assets such as absolute return products, according to a new survey. A JPMorgan Asset Management survey found almost 70 per cent of Japanese pensions said ...

MLC appoints portfolio manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... top-down credentials which MLC will utilise in setting asset allocation and the strategic overlay of MLC's Long Term Absolute Return strategy. Piper's appointment means that Peter Sumner, who has been responsible for these strategies since 2000, will ...

Ratings first, platforms second: CAAM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... Morningstar and Van Eyk number among the rating houses that CAAM will approach to rate its four products: the CAAM VAR8 Absolute Return Fund, CAAM Global Bond Fund, CAAM AI Diversified Fund and CAAM Global Emerging Markets Fund. Borysiewicz expects the ...

MCG appoints Select

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... director of MCG Wealth Management. "The complexities in structuring portfolios that included alternative assets, absolute return managers and proactive asset allocation makes it difficult, dangerous and near impossible for even the most sophisticated ...