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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 ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... end of last year. Platinum Asset Management, led by local star manager Kerr Neilson, was listed as the 19th largest hedge fund manager by pension fund assets under management. The survey shows that the top 10 local alternatives managers by funds under ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... Corporation from riskier financial institutions that offer services such as investment banking, insurance, swaps dealing, and hedge fund and private equity activities." The Glass-Steagall Act introduced in 1933 during the Great Depression was repealed ...

PROFILE: Stanford Brown chief executive Jonathan Hoyle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... loans." This involved relocating to New York - the backdrop of Liar's Poker - where he first became associated with the hedge fund sector. "My job," he continues, "was to work with the hedge fund community in New York to either invest J.P. Morgan's money ...

Hedge fund returns down 10% in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) 2014 hedge funds survey, which examined 27 hedge fund managers based in Australia with more than $37.1 billion in funds under management, which represents about 44% of the market. ...