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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 ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... income mix. Furthermore, from September 2008 to February 2009, hedge funds (indicated by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index) fell by 13.8%, compared to ASX200 Index's 33.1% slump during the same period. The other issues of volatility and liquidity ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Hedge fund returns have been hit by the Chinese market correction and by the Greek debt crisis, a global Eurekahedge report for June 2015 showed. After five months of consecutive gains, hedge funds posted their first monthly loss this year in June ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

Philanthropic LICs a triple win: Wilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... normal fees, you're paying less." Battle Against Cancer Investment Trust (BACIT) is a UK-listed fund of funds founded by hedge fund manager Tom Henderson, from which Wilson took the idea to set up a similar initiative in Australia. Before founding Future ...

Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... manager QIC, responsible for managing its external manager alpha program.A He spent the early part of his career as a hedge fund manager in Europe. "Aongus is a highly experienced investment professional, particularly in identifying investment strategies ...

Fidante buys UK alternatives manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
Challenger's boutique funds management arm, Fidante Partners, has acquired a European alternative investments manager based in London. The buyout of Dexion Capital Holdings adds to Fidante's other UK-based managers, which include global infrastructure ...