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Hedge funds on a refund policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... clauses. The report cited the $210 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) which requested 26 hedge funds to adopt a fee structure that included the ability to claw back fees in when managers post poor returns and payment of fees ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... be done across counterparties, asset classes, portfolios, currencies and countries including alternatives such as hedge funds, said Dew. What is more, Dew said that a better data monitoring system would become more relevant later this year when APRA ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... lower fees and new liquidity rules will appeal to local super funds allocating new money into alternative strategies. Hedge funds are a hard sell these days following the sector's nightmare run in the past two years. But if there is a silver lining to ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Global hedge funds trailed behind key global indices as markets staged a recovery although long term figures depict a different picture, according to the latest hedge fund research. The global hedge fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... and insurers are supervised. But more significant for the investment management are proposals that "All advisers to hedge funds (and other private pools of capital, including private equity funds and venture capital funds) whose assets under management ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... offer clients diversified access to global markets through separate accounts, common trust funds, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, and closed-end funds. Barclay's ETF platform iShares currently has over $367 billion of AUM in more than 350 funds worldwide. ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... months, but the asset remained unvalued for 15 months. Those surveyed included local and international private equity, hedge funds, property and infrastructure fund managers. Trafford-Walker said out of the five fund managers that failed to follow their ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... reallocate during 2009. The report, called Picking up the Pieces, forecasted at least $63 billion would be mandated to hedge funds. "We found that in spite of dramatic changes in the investor landscape, certain investors were ready to deploy their cash ...

FoHF gain liquidity tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... said monitoring liquidity is at the top of fund of a hedge fund manager's list. "We have seen a growing number of hedge funds imposing gates, particularly over the last 12 months," he said. "Northern Trust is able to assist our fund of hedge fund manager ...

PASL to tap alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... although this time around the portfolio will include assets such as direct infrastructure, private capital, property, hedge funds and credit. The medium term plan is to have the portfolio fully invested in a one to two year time frame, working in collaboration ...