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Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... mortal than you and I, Raymond "Ray" Dalio - the president and founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's biggest hedge fund - told other great mortals (2,600 political, business and financial leaders) at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last ...

Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... play out, because that's a Mug's game," he said. "A lot of people are out there talking about 'smart beta' and sexy hedge fund strategies. "The simple strategies have done better though, and of course, they are also cheaper," Westaway told delegates ...

Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... clients - which include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies - allocated 70% more assets to hedge fund and private market strategies than in 2010, reaching $12 billion for the year. Craig Baker, global head of investment research ...

AMP adds hedge fund specialists to alts team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... York, London and Sydney reaching the position of managing director. He developed and managed the company's internal hedge fund program. Nguyen has over six years' experience working as a research analyst at EIM Management in the US where she conducted ...

ASIC extends shorter PDS regime relief

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... issued shorter PDSs when ASIC excluded hedge funds from the shorter PDS regime. Class order [CO 12/749] provides that a hedge fund that has issued a shorter PDS before 18 June 2012 may continue to use that shorter PDS until 31 January 2013. ASIC has ...

Ex-Ascalon boss starts at BlackRock

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
Westpac-owned boutique Ascalon Capital's former chief executive officer has this week started his new job as of head of alternatives for BlackRock in Australia. After announcing in June this year that he was leaving Ascalon, a subsidiary of Westpac's ...

Regulation compounds hedge fund woes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... Finding Common Ground, compiled by consulting firm Greenwich Associates for Ernst & Young, compares opinions from 100 hedge fund managers who manage over US$710 billion and 50 institutional investors with over US$190 billion allocated to hedge funds. ...

Beware complex absolute return funds: Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... investors who are willing to carry out the necessary research and are comfortable holding products that make use of hedge fund style tools, could benefit from such index unaware investment vehicles. "Industry innovation now sees quality offerings coming ...

Litigation risk to force advisers into multi-asset options: Russell

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
Scott Fletcher, director of client investment strategies at Russell, believes the threat of being liable for misdirected investment advice will see many planners, especially those specialising in life risk and other non-investment products, turn to ...

MLC adds three managers to new strategy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... alternative strategies team. The new managers in the strategy include Bridgewater Associates, which runs a global macro hedge fund, Nephila Capital, which manages a portfolio of insurance-related investments and Balestra Capital, which also runs a global ...