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Global Merces launches managed funds regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... time focusing on KYC functionalities to make it more robust. Separately, Global Merces recently launched an alternatives fund, the GM Media Ventures Fund, which invests in early and growth stage media projects around the world. These include an animated ...

FirstChoice Alternatives adds new macro manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
... alternatives portfolio of $1.1 billion. Head of investments at Colonial First State Scott Tully said the FirstChoice Alternatives Fund is an attractive prospect to investors because of the potential of equity like returns with lower volatility and low ...

Alternatives fund takes stake in Ignition Wealth

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
Ignition Wealth has received a "significant" investment from an ASX-listed alternatives fund. Millinium Capital Managers' Millinium Alternatives Fund (ASX code: MAX) made the investment in the digital advice provider, which Ignition Wealth said was ...

Investors hard up for alternatives opportunities

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... institutional investors suggests that "at least" 80% of respondents had previously decided not to invest in an alternatives fund due to the proposed terms. Over a third also suggested managers aren't doing enough to promote their products. At the same ...

BTFG shutters alternatives fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
BT Financial Group has confirmed the winding up of one of its popular alternatives funds. The Advance Alternatives Strategies Multi-Blend Fund was terminated on 14 June and is being managed by Ramius Alternative Solutions until the wind up is completed ...

Lack of scaleability curbs hedge fund appeal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... be identified and used as the basis of mathematical models, ie, develop aspects of what some hedge fund and alternatives fund managers seek to do but organise and de-personalise it into a scalable process. This is what prompted CFM to develop its heavy ...

Man Diversified Alternatives recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Zenith Investment partners has reaffirmed its 'recommended' rating for the Man Diversified Alternatives fund with it ranking highest among its peer group in the researcher's 2015 Multi Strategy and Fund of Hedge Funds Sector Report. Man Group is one ...

New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... a focus on risk management and limiting trading costs, CFM believes it has found a gap in the market for an alternatives fund which meets most investors' needs. More than two decades of investment in quantitative research and development and in implementation ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... 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 started building a business for when, a decade later, I knew Australian ...

Lazard launches new alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Lazard Asset Management has launched a new long/short European equity fund. The Lazard European Alternative Fund, which is UCITS compliant, comprises a liquid portfolio of around 60 European large and mid-cap stocks, both long and short, selected on ...