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Sunsuper awards $580m mandate to US endowment fund

... The group currently has only one product, an endowment fund that will invest across listed equities, private equity, hedge funds and listed and direct property investments. "Sunsuper has been actively exploring ways to create long term wealth and this ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
Up to half all hedge funds, at least one major bank and a "substantial percentage" of private equity firms in business today worldwide will cease to exist within five years, according to predictions made by GMO chairman, Jeremy Grantham. In his quarterly ...

Water investments the next frontier

... water sector offers new alpha-generating opportunities due to the dearth of fund managers specialising in the sector. "Hedge funds are, in general, now only discovering the water market," said Della Casa, head of research at Man and co-author of the ...

Alternatives rewrite custody

... up an alternative investments unit five months ago designed to look into three types of alternative asset classes: hedge funds, private equity and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. "As our [superannuation] clients look to deliver solutions to their ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... handsomely profited from it, have joined the list of casualties - homebuilders, mortgage lenders and of course banks and hedge funds dealing in sub-prime mortgage securities. But given the IMF's recent upgrading of global growth earnings, many analysts ...

Absolute differences among hedge funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... representative of the Alternative Investment Management Association, Damien Hatfield, said there were only two other local hedge funds that had the same investment profile as Basis Capital, which invested at the high-risk end of the structured credit ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... contributor, triggered by Bear Stearns delivering very bad news to some of their investors. Backers of its two failed hedge funds will get little, if any, money back after unprecedented losses in the value of AAA rated sub-prime mortgage backed securities ...

Economic round-up: Mortgage meltdown misery

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2007
... the previous year. Market nerves over the sector fallout certainly haven't improved following the implosion of two hedge funds. Managed by Bear Stearns, the second-largest underwriter of mortgage bonds, these funds collapsed from substantial losses on ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... "It will be very interesting to see what happens in the last couple of hours of trade today with fund managers and hedge funds trying to dress their returns up for end of financial year," she said. In the US, stocks finished on Thursday a little lower ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... data. Shares of Bear Stearns Cos rose 2.8 per cent to $US143.31, after the company moved to bolster its two troubled hedge funds. A sharp rise in crude oil prices after the government reported a surprise decline in US gasoline supplies last week lifted ...