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Falkiner poised for retail growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
After three years of establishing its business, boutique funds specialist Falkiner Global Investors, partners with Colonial First State global asset management chief executive Warwick Negus and flags a renewed focus on global equities. Negus becomes ...

Intech alt fund posts 16pc

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... has finished its first year on a high, with a return of 16.16 per cent for the the year to end September. The absolute return, multi-manager fund delivered much of its performance during the recent sub-prime crisis, where it delivered positive returns ...

Platforms demand liquidity on alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... Macquarie Bank. Chris Freeman, head of distribution at BT Financial Group, said their platform also provided access to absolute return type funds, hedge funds and infrastructure, but was less concerned with liquidity issues. "When it comes to liquidity ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

... administration provider Kingsway Taitz has won two mandates from arkx Funds Management and RTM Capital for and absolute return fund and multi strategy carbon fund. The RTM Absolute Return Fund aims to return cash plus 10 per cent, with medium- to long-term ...

Magellan Global is best-of-breed

... Smythe in a report. Magellan Global is concentrated, with 25 to 50 stocks at any one time, benchmark unaware and absolute return focused. Reflecting on the fund manager's view that there's a 25 per cent plus risk still exists of the sub-prime mess impacting ...

BNP Paribas wins CAAM custody

... of wholesale investors. To date, these funds are invested in global fixed income, currency, Asian equities and absolute return strategies. Michelle Baltazar

Epoch boutique heads Down Under

... Under the deal, Grant Samuel is to distribute Epoch's high conviction Global Choice fund, Global Choice, Global Absolute Return, Global Small Cap and Global Equities Shareholder Yield, all of which have beaten their respective benchmarks by a good margin. ...

K2 back on IPO path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... shares in a highly competitive market for premium investment professionals." He said the future was strong for absolute return specialists as they become more attractive to investors in volatile markets. K2 Asset Management is a boutique fund manager ...

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... contains some sector constraints but they are not very binding." The risk approach does not however mean it's an absolute return or hedge fund because it invests only on a 'long-only' basis, she said. Rockefeller said the risk management ethos is very ...

SG Hiscock and Stockland win PIR awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... sector leading returns and the momentum of the property sector. They offer a selection of listed, global listed, absolute return and property income funds and are distributed into the market through Equity Trustees. Stocklands is a diversified direct ...