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Hedge fund FUM to hit $2.3 trillion by year end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
A Deutsche Bank survey of global hedge fund managers finds they expect their combined FUM to climb to $2.3 trillion by the end of 2012. Driving the expectations are institutional investors, HNW and Family Offices looking for investment performance in ...

Liquidity strength in CTAs

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
Global hedge fund of fund investment firm, Financial Risk Management, finds liquidity and diversity in CTAs with volatility support in current alternative markets. Financial Risk Management (FRM) has introduced weekly liquidity for its FRM Sigma Fund ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The University of Pennsylvania and New York University have been ranked the top universities for breaking into the US hedge funds industry. Global hedge funds are estimated to now be running $2 trillion worldwide. In Australia they run approximately ...

Instos go direct as hedge funds industry moves

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... dynamic between investors, hedge funds and administrators as regulatory reforms sweep the industry. Around 65% of global hedge fund AUM lies in the US where investors are demanding more transparency, liquidity and efficiency. Australian investors are ...

FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global hedge fund of fund investment firm, launched its offshore fund FRM Sigma, investing in a globally-source portfolio of Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs) that specialise in managed futures. A managed futures account ...

ETFs distort stock fundamentals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... Hennessee said this is proving very disruptive. However, separate research by Hedge Fund Research has found global hedge fund assets rose nearly 30 per cent since 2009 to $1.9 trillion. "Hedge funds seeking to generate gains in their short portfolios ...

HSBC wins Ascalon mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... HSBC will become Ascalon's sole securities services provider in Australia. Ascalon will get access to HSBC's global hedge fund administration. Ascalon's funds under management has risen over the last twelve months to around $3.5 billion, due to its stakes ...

Brakes on new hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... institutional investors. "Although we have seen signs of life in this sector, with $14 billion of inflows into the global hedge fund industry in the [first quarter] of 2010, this is still substantially lower than the $111 billion per annum in inflows ...

Global hedge fund market shows signs of life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Hedge fund start-ups are attracting money from large institutional investors after the global financial crisis pushed many small to mid-tier hedge funds out of the market. Ben Funk, managing director and head of research at Liongate Capital Management ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
It will take the global hedge fund sector another four years to recover assets lost since 2007, but its year-on-year growth will be faster than that of the managed fund sector, new research shows. According to Cerulli Edge, global hedge fund assets ...