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Ascalon and Regal form partnership

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... alternatives equities manager with approximately $350 million under management. The firm specialises in fundamental based market neutral, long/short and absolute return strategies, as well as Asian quantitative strategies. Andrew King, managing director ...

Retirees brush off volatility to hold equities long term

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... retirees prefer fewer equities in their portfolios compared to the past, 68 per cent of 375 advisers disagree or were neutral about the trend, a new survey by Challenger Financial Services shows. But while retirees continue to favour equities, they are ...

AMP adds DNR portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... model portfolios on AMP's Personalised Portfolio Service. Dalton Nicol Reid's High Conviction portfolio, which is style neutral and holds between 15 and 25 Australian-listed equities, has outperformed the market by 3.5 per cent since inception in 2002 ...

Regal bags hedge fund award

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... the Best Asian Relative Value Fund Award at the annual Eurekahedge Asian ceremony in Singapore. Regal's Amazon Market Neutral fund aims to provide returns with low correlation to equity markets. "Regal has always sought to provide investors with high ...

Trust advocates long-term staff incentives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... generations of investors. "We are focussed on really looking after the clients we have now... and hopefully turn them from being neutral to positive advocates for our business," he said.

Lazard Japan appoints former JPMorgan head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... long-only; and 130/30). The second stream is on alternative investment, which features three long/short strategies (market neutral, directional and concentrated, directional). Prugue said that the firm has Australian insto clients in both their beta ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... Janus brings this research muscle in Australia through the launch of the Janus Global Research 130/30 strategy, a sector neutral fund holding between 100 to 150 long holdings and 50 to 100 short holdings. "A lot of 130/30 strategies that [local] instos ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... from its current price over the next two or three years. The firm has maintained its view on the Australian dollar as 'neutral' relative to the Euro and Japanese Yen. "The Australian dollar will be increasingly vulnerable to any disappointments on either ...

GMO head of Aussie equities departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... Australia in 2008. Prior to that, he worked at Macquarie Investment Management as senior portfolio manager of a style-neutral Australian equity fund. In a statement referring to the appointment, GMO did not disclose the reasons why Suvak has left the ...

Emerging markets look expensive: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... gains in the next few months after the market has gone sideways since October last year. The research also suggests a neutral stance on the US market as the country's dollar looks to bottom out and US interest rates likely to rise. Bassanese's Investor ...