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SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge funds using indexing techniques developed by London Business School academics Bill Fung and Narayan Naik, and Duke University academic ...

SELECT expands senior team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... Fund Management&[which] now have over $17.3 billion in funds under management, mainly in their market neutral fund of hedge funds," he said. Foley said the Select Diversified and Alternatives Portfolios has performed well in the last six months. "We ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... acquire a 40 per cent stake in the airport. NEW YORK - Shares of Bear Stearns Cos plunged Thursday amid worries that hedge funds and other traders are nervous about entering into long-term trades with the Wall Street bank weakened by heavy mortgage market ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... equities, property, high-yield bonds, commodities and infrastructure. They will also include exposure to synthetic hedge funds through allocations to SSgA's hedge fund replication strategy. These predominantly passively managed strategies provide exposure ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... per cent. According to Jay Moghe, managing director of Opes Prime Asset Management, cloning delivers the returns of hedge funds at a dramatically lower cost, by creating passive replicating portfolios or clones of other funds. "The use of liquid exchange ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
While the performance of listed property and hedge funds falter in the wake of the US sub-prime disaster, fund managers such as Ascalon Capital Managers are steering their attention to the global commodity sector to maximise investor returns. The St.George ...

New era for investment analysts

... The way fund managers and super funds perform has been influenced by "the advent of a wide range of alternatives - hedge funds, long/short funds, infrastructure, private equity - and ways to manage portfolio construction in that framework," she said. ...

Adept Capital launches Asian FOHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... the Early Stage Asia Fund, which allows investors to access to the initial high growth potential of developing Asian hedge funds. The fund targets an annualised return between 15 to 20 per cent from no more than 20 Asian focused hedge funds. The fund ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said apart from the weak US lead, the local market was reacting to news that hedge funds could be colluding to short sell the market. "By the look of the banking sector the shortening is continuing, I would say ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... Alternative asset allocation across all pension funds increased with real estate, private equity, commodities and hedge funds rising close to four per cent to 16 per cent in the last few years. "Last year we saw a shift out of equities and into bonds ...