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Private equity spree hurting managers: Suncorp

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The spate of private equity activity is making life hard for active fund managers, with index funds outperforming many Australian equities funds thanks to the soaring valuations of unloved stocks on the back of buyout speculation. According to Denis ...

SELECT tops hedge fund ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... have topped Standard & Poor's (S&P) hedge fund rankings with both receiving five star ratings. The Select Gottex Market Neutral Fund and a two times leveraged version of the fund, the Select Gottex Enhanced Market Neutral Fund, both received the top ...

Basis Capital takes top hedge funds honour

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... International Absolute Return Fund - Best Long Short & Absolute Return Fund Award - Hayberry Australian Equity Fund - Best Market Neutral Fund Award - Fortitude Capital - Best Global Macro / Futures Fund Award - Merrill Lynch Asset Allocation Alpha Fund ...

BT backs new hedge fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... flagship Voyager Pan Asia Fund. The long-short equities fund, run by Voyager's seven person investment team, is market neutral and invests in Pacific Rim countries, targeting returns of 15 per cent per annum with 10 per cent or less volatility. Voyager ...

Barclays wins S&P top prize

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... manager of the year, and BT, who were awarded in three sectors, including Australian equities and both balanced funds neutral and dynamic. In spite of BT's strong representation across the three sectors, they failed to be nominated for the fund manager ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... strategies such as capital structure arbitrage, event-driven and global macro strategies, along with active equity market neutral, fixed income, currency, commodity and emerging market strategies. "When properly run by a large, global institutional asset ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... either November or December with the economy running at full capacity and the present interest rate regime essentially neutral, being neither expansionary nor contractionary. Australia's farmers have continued to lobby the Federal Government for a free ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative ...

INVESCO passes chief baton to O'Brien

... Atlanta-based manager Scott Wolle and will have four "uncorrelated pieces" namely the global tactical asset allocation, US market neutral, European market neutral and global bonds. Highlighting INVESCO's intention to grow the business, O'Brien said they ...

Active managers still outperforming index: Navigator

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2006
Navigator's most recent Australian equity sector review revealed that most active managers continue to outperform index managers, with those focusing on small caps and growth style investing getting the lion's share of returns. While Navigator's research ...