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BNP Paribas wins Ashton custody

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... been an extremely challenging investment climate," he said. "In an environment of uncertainty, we believe our absolute return focus will have strong appeal to Australian investors." Ashton is a privately owned investment management group which focuses ...

Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... diversified funds have all been ranked in the top quartile over one, three, five and seven periods. The firm uses an absolute return philosophy to portfolio construction, which allows its managers to be flexible and actively manage risk. Rex Phillpott ...

US instos ramp up alts to 22pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... for boosting its allocation to alternatives. The survey revealed the most popular alternative assets included absolute return or hedge funds, followed by private equity and real estate. Hedge funds are expected the account for approximately 40 per cent ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... moment," he said. Last year, the firm made its debut appearance in the local insto market with four offerings - an absolute return fund, global bond fund, AI diversified fund and global emerging markets offering. However Borysiewicz said insto investors ...

DWS hedge offers daily liquidity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... will provide the liquidity," said Fitzgerald. The existing DWS Strategic Value Fund invests across three broad absolute return strategies - Relative Value, Event Driven, Long/Short Equity - and many sub-strategies in around 15-35 hedge funds from around ...

Everest B&B wins $200m Sunsuper mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Sunsuper awarded Everest Babcock & Brown a $200 million mandate to construct an absolute return fund for the super fund. Jeremy Reid, Everest Babcock & Brown chief executive, said the Sunsuper mandate represented the firm's first Australian institutional ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... alternative assets as pension funds around the world seek to diversify their portfolios and capture alpha through absolute return strategies," said Roger Urwin, Watson Wyatt global head of investment consulting. "Changing pension fund needs and globalisation ...

FTI Aus unveils global equity fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... "This is reflected in a number of market trends including the focus on risk adjusted excess returns and demand for absolute return and high conviction strategies," she said. The research-driven portfolio holds 45 stocks that have limited overlap of economic ...

Northward banks on top stocks

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... Diversified Debt Fund, Northward Australian Equities Fund, Challenger Select Australian Shares Fund, Antares Lodestar Absolute Return Trust - Australian Shares, Platinum Asia Fund, BlackRock Global Small Cap Fund, BlackRock Global Allocation Fund, and ...

Global equities to bounce 15pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... it then went on to add a further 27 per cent." Falkiner Global Investors has two funds including the Australian Absolute Return Fund and the Falkiner Global Absolute Returns Fund. The Falkiner Global Absolute Returns Fund's unit price increased by 20.6 ...