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Clearway adds third client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Zealand. Zebra Capital Management, Clearway's third client, is a quantitative investment manager that provides market neutral and long short equity strategies to institutional investors. Roger Ibbotson, partner at Zebra Capital Management, said the Australian ...

Select exits third party distribution

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... to the Board of Directors at Select as chief executive, said Select will no longer be offering its Select Gottex Market Neutral fund to new retail investors. The Select Gottex Enhanced Market Neutral Fund will be wound up with net proceeds returned to ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... fees and expenses. The index holds a range of hedge fund strategies including equity long/short, global macro, market neutral, event driven and fixed income arbitrage. The ETF also invests in a number of ETFs on the market to build the portfolio and ...

Sentiment tips back to Aussie shares

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... surveyed 40 leading Australian fund managers for its latest quarterly Investment Manager Outlook (IMO). The flipside of the neutral outlook is managers are dispirited in the short-term by ongoing market mayhem but they acknowledge the market holds strong ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... market that could average below eight per cent over the next two years, this would be impressive." Although, value and neutral managers had performed well in previous volatile markets, choosing which managers to use as a core for the investment strategy ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... issues," said Patterson. Along the way Perennial started measuring its own carbon emissions and took steps to become carbon neutral, among other endeavours. Meanwhile Hyperion became a signatory of the UN PRI two weeks ago. Like Perennial, Hyperion had ...

Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... McCaughan Securities and Citibank. Suntharam will focus on managing the firm's quantitative investment suite across market neutral, long short and long only funds while Khilnani will work on the development of new funds for prospective clients and have ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... per cent respectively. The report found three of the four hedge strategies posted gains during the month, with market neutral funds leading the charge gaining 1.8 per cent on average. Convertible and fixed income arbitrage managers and event driven strategies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... next fiscal year, following criticism of his behaviour at a weekend G7 news conference in Rome, though the news may be neutral for stocks. The benchmark Nikkei shed 104.66 points to 7,645.51, its lowest finish since Oct 28 when it ended at 7,621.92. ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... intra and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said the fund's team is appropriately qualified ...