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Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Super funds should not be shy of demanding full holdings disclosure from alternatives managers in order to meet reporting standards, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. Sicilia said that if the managers refuse to provide the information ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Alternatives managers will need to be more transparent with their super fund investors in order to help them meet regulatory reporting requirements, according to BNP Paribas. Madhu Gayer, head of investment reporting and performance for Asia-Pacific ...

AIMA appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has appointed former hedge fund manager Michael Gallagher as general manager of its Australian National Group. Gallagher replaces Brett Ireland who has decided to focus on a full-time role elsewhere ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... House Group director David Hains (12th place), Seven Group Holdings executive chairman Kerry Stokes (14th place) and hedge fund guru and CQS founder Michael Hintze (23rd place). Greg Coffey is the next professional investor on the list in 87th place. ...

FUM closes in on $2trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... billion. The market reorienting towards indexing has seen its penetration ratio rise to its highest ever level of 19%. Hedge fund FUM reached $43 billion, private equity holdings through investment managers reached $28 billion and infrastructure $63 ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... 2010, The Australian published this report: "Global currency expert Savvas Savouri, of the British-based Toscafund hedge fund... predicts the dollar will reach $US1.30 by 2013 -- and $US1.70 by 2014, as the greenback relinquishes its "exorbitant privilege" ...

BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... income), Hamilton Lane (private equity), Impax Asset Management (environmental and resource efficiency markets), Permal (hedge fund solutions) and internal Investment Partner, BNP Paribas Asset Management.

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... (Bloomberg again). Yikes! Be afraid. Bloomberg quotes John Kilduff - "a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund that focuses on energy" - to explain why we should be wetting our pants. It's because "This is a major geopolitical event ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... a wider equity market index. This, he explained, is because there are many managers who have been attracted to the hedge fund industry by the opportunity to charge higher fees. They design leveraged strategies with high market beta so that when markets ...