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Super funds are not 'blameless'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Super funds should take a closer look at their own role in the current capital market crisis and reassess their governance standards instead of blaming other firms, according to Donald MacDonald, BT Pension Fund trustee and UK PRI chair. Speaking at ...

Managers hit back on shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
Perpetual, Platinum and K2 have responded to ASIC's recent ban on short selling - arguing that the move will hurt the futures market and cast undeserved doubts on the legitimacy of shorting as a valid investment strategy. Perpetual Investment general ...

Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... Hedge Fund of the Year award. While the market fell 40 per cent since the fund's inception in 2005, Fortitude's Absolute Return trust gained 11.27 per cent over the same period and delivered 9.32 per cent net of fees in the last financial year. Meanwhile ...

HSBC launches alt fund services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... fund accounting, investor servicing and financial reporting to hedge fund managers, fund of hedge fund managers, absolute return fund managers and private equity partners locally. "Our ability to leverage our global footprint and provide our clients ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... a long time would remember Carter during his stint at PM Capital, where he helped develop the boutique fund's absolute return strategy. Prior to that, he managed the US, European and UK global portfolios at QBE for more than five years. Carter's 25-year ...

Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... Australian equities, Ian Harding. The fund manager will be providing seeding to Wavestone to establish a new offshore absolute return fund based in the Cayman Islands, taking the boutique's business to over $100 million in contracted funds under management. ...

QIC favours endowment funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... investment strategies which is what we're after." Ryder attributed stable returns, a good mix of alternative and absolute return investments and access to private equity partnerships as the main factors driving QIC's interest in endowment style funds. ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
Traditional absolute return funds often rely on their ability to manage physical securities - but the QIC Global Fixed Interest Fund is going against mainstream thinking by exploiting opportunities with no correlation to major asset classes. QIC, which ...

Ashton in talks with BT and Macquarie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... different sectors, regions and market instruments. Similarly the Ashton Performance Fund is a global multi-strategy absolute return fund that invests across diverse sectors and regions. Both funds have performed well against the benchmark ASX 200. The ...

Fortitude hires ex-nab and Macquarie staff

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... in excess of $150 million for domestic and international institutions. Its domestic fund, the Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust, has an annualised return of 11.4 per cent over the last three years and delivered a 9.32 per cent return versus a 17 ...