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SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... "market-friendly". To toe the line, Rozanov said SWFs could join forces with other institutional investors and activist hedge funds in governance issues such as executive pay, "poison pills" and M&A proposals. He stressed that the shift won't happen ...

BlackRock tops diversified funds review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... than half the managers assessed by the ratings firm now include alternative assets in their portfolios. These include hedge funds, alpha import strategies, private equity, infrastructure and global resources. In addition, the review found several managers ...

ESSSuper reviews Aussie eq, eyes alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... with less volatility. These "alternative - growth" assets currently include investment grade credit, listed property, hedge funds, private equity and infrastructure. The fund may also consider tapping timber and commodity investments in the future to ...

S&P withdraws Ashton-Paulson rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Standard & Poor's has withdrawn the 'two stars' rating on the Ashton-Paulson hedge funds after rating the products just over a week ago. Ashton Advisors (Australia) advised Standard & Poor's to pull the rating on the firm's Ashton-Paulson hedge funds ...

EC's reforms could be fatal to hedgies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
The European Commission's draft directive to police hedge funds more threatens the future of Aussie fund managers and investors in Europe, warns a key industry association. The Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association is waving ...

CalPERS portfolio drops 23pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... opportunistic investments in private equity, real estate and infrastructure. The pension is also working closer with hedge funds and private equity managers to align interests and possibly renegotiate fees. And CalPERS noted its legal action against ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds, hedge funds and fund of funds are actively seeking non-correlated investments such catastrophe bonds and other insurance linked securities. ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... approach US$24 trillion by 2013 - a slower pace but still 10 times the size of the hedge fund market. But the new wave of hedge funds and managed funds over the next few years will be structured differently to the ones created before the GFC. For example ...

Select hires advisory panel

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... will provide inform the investment committee across the macro economic outlook, alternative investments, property, hedge funds, traditional assets and fixed interest. "The combined expertise and extensive networks of the investment advisory panel leverages ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... firms that see the appeal of the strategy as an alternative to other global equities offerings, absolute return and hedge funds. "Some of the issues we've had in the past about asset classes, for example hedge funds, is illiquidity. With this strategy ...