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BlackRock earns double honours at hedge fund awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... The BlackRock Australian Equity Market Neutral Fund received double honours at the annual Cure Our Kids Australian Hedge Fund Awards last night, winning awards for Australian hedge fund of the year, and best market neutral fund. The wholesale fund delivered ...

New Aus equities product for BGC

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
A license to offer equity options and cash equities products has been granted to global brokerage company BGC Partners (BGC) by the Australian Securities Exchange. Set to launch 1 October, BGC said the products would boost the firm's range of over-the-counter ...

Retail MySuper to put NFPs on back foot

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... MySuper strategy and why it is worth operating and running a more diversified program," Costello told the Australian Hedge Fund Forum yesterday. He was expressing a concern held by many alternatives providers that the current industry "fixation" on lowering ...

New hedge fund rules for post-GFC environment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... risks involved to better protect investors following recent high-profile cases of fraud. Addressing the Australian Hedge Fund Forum yesterday, ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer said the rules had been strongly influenced by the $176 million collapse of Trio ...

Lest we forget Lehman: Omgeo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... operational efficiency in middle and back office operations remains a challenge, Freeman said, pointing particularly to the hedge fund segment as an area often requiring better understanding. "The DNA of the hedge fund industry is to be extremely sophisticated ...

Catch-all 'Alternative' label useless: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
Increasing allocations to alternatives warrants a more meaningful classification over what comprises the sector, according to Pengana Capital. Russell Pillemer, Pengana Capital CEO, said when "alternative" allocations were small, reference to the ubiquitous ...

Soros family office buys into Man United

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... team in the world. Since then however, shares in the club have fallen almost a dollar in value. Soros converted his hedge fund into a family office last year. Although he is still chairman of Soros Fund Management, his sons handle most day-to-day dec ...

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Geo-political signals allude to a potential market shock in coming months, said Advance Asset Management. Global political uncertainty could to lead to a severe destablilsiation of markets as soon as the last quarter of this year, said Felix Stephen ...

MFOs take growth from banks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... inherent conflict. Last year a US federal judge ordered Citigroup to pay two clients US$54.1 million for losses in a hedge fund that borrowed billions in an effort to extract higher yields from municipal bonds. The fund had been pitched to Citi's private-banking ...

Long-volatility a loss-maker: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... investment portfolios, which combined varying amounts of volatility strategies and actively managed absolute return and hedge fund strategies - concluding that active management was a more effective strategy. The paper, Brave New World: Assessing Volatility ...