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Firetrail to launch $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... boutique's investment team is led by Patrick Hodgens, Blake Henricks and James Miller, who ran Maquarie's market neutral fund. The investment team and their associates will take up at least 500,000 shares ($1 million of the $304.5 million IPO) ...

New $500m boutique manager partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... boutique partnership with a manager helmed by former Challenger and Credit Suisse investors. Equus Point Capital is a market neutral strategy for Aussie equities that will target a return of 7.25% to 12.5% above the benchmark. The team has run the strategy ...

Former Macquarie equities team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... currently running two funds: a high conviction fund with a concentrated portfolio of about 25 Australian equities and a market neutral absolute return fund. Firetrail brings the $35 billion Pinnacle Investment Management stable to nine affiliates. Pinnacle ...

Watermark LIC chair resigns to launch new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... interim chair since December and will now take on the role on a permanent basis. WGF launched as Australia's first market neutral listed investment company in late 2016. Its initial public offering raised more than $90 million at an offer price of $1.10 ...

Watermark hires global equities lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... million in assets under management. In May, the company undertook an on-market, one-for-one buy-back for its global market neutral listed investment company, Watermark Global Leaders Fund (WGF), after announcing disappointing performance in 2016. In ...

Market neutral isn't always the neutral: Alleron

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... to a high-conviction Australian equity manager, a 150/50 strategy may actually carry less drawdown risk than a market neutral approach. Alleron Investment Management chief executive Barry Littler explained that a 150% geared long portfolio funded by ...

Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... taking out the award for Best Long Short Equity Fund and Macquarie's Pure Alpha Fund being recognised as the Best Market Neutral Fund. Other winners on the night include the Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund which was named Best Emerging Manager ...

Aussie large cap funds underperforming: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... multi-asset to investors within Australia, Zenith noted. Advanced or specialist strategies such as long/short, market neutral and alternative strategies are not implementable via an SMA structure. The Australian small cap segment, where active managers ...

Watermark market neutral LIC to launch buy-back

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
Watermark Funds Management will undertake an on-market, one-for-one buy-back for its global market neutral listed investment company, Watermark Global Leaders Fund (WGF), after announcing disappointing performance in 2016. In an investor update, Watermark ...

IFM wins $670m super mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... fund was launched in 2016 and complements IFM's existing Australian Equities Extended Alpha Fund and Asia-Pacific Market Neutral Fund. "We have seen strong interest from Australian superannuation funds in our differentiated investment approach with its ...