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Aust and HK strengthen retail ties

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... primarily by the SFC and managed by SFC-licensed managers, as well as ASIC-registered financial asset schemes except hedge funds. Meanwhile the Investments and Financial Services Association has given the thumbs up to the arrangements. "Mutual recognition ...

DWS hedge offers daily liquidity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
DWS Investments could well be one of the pioneers of a new era in hedge funds when it launched a new product that offers daily liquidity and pricing to retail investors. DWS Investments, Deutsche Bank's global retail asset management arm, last week ...

HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... Halbis (active management specialist) and Sinopia (quantitative specialist). HSBC Alternative Investments' fund of hedge funds and tailor-made institutional portfolios of hedge funds will also be made available in Australia. Genochio will be responsible ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... conducted over a year period to December last year report and included 190 investment managers across real estate, fund of hedge funds, private equity fund of funds, infrastructure and commodities. The report found global pension funds favoured real ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... headlines however was the indictment of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, both senior managers of failed Bear Stearns hedge funds. It is alleged that by March last year, both Cioffi and Tannin knew that the funds were at risk of collapse but misrepresented ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

Australian super funds are predicted to increase their investment allocation to hedge funds by $1 billion over the next two to five years with some switching from the popular fund-of-fund strategy to single strategy and multi-strategy hedge funds. The ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... Plans to own capital to fund a minority of its investments saw Adic open a first subscription period for a new fund of hedge funds this month. By the late June 2008, Adic expects to launch a $500 million infrastructure fund alongside UBS Asset Management. ...

Alternative investment giant eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... equity fund (Blackstone Capital Partners), real estate opportunity fund (Blackstone Real Estate Partners), fund of hedge funds business and two closed-end mutual funds (The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund).

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Growing fears that hedge funds and arbitrage markets are playing a disproportionate role in driving up soft commodity prices is prompting the Indian government to consider a ban on food futures. The comments by the Indian government's finance minister ...

No standards, no deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... Group (HFWG). The survey also found more than half of pension funds expect that within three years they will require hedge funds to comply with the standard if they wish to manage their assets. Tom Brown, European head of KPMG's Investment Management ...