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Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... investment ideas from leading IRPs and Bloomberg's unmatched data and news gives clients valuable tools to seek maximum alpha," said Tierney.

Fund managers fail to make the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... with other researchers Aegis Equities Research and VanMac - all of whom issued reports mentioning the disgraced Absolute Alpha Fund, none of them negative.

Foreign shocks sparks IT scrutiny

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Hedge funds and finance industry operators are paying up to 50 per cent more for old legacy disaster recovery management systems, a new technology provider has said. Alphaserve Technologies, a New York-based firm that provides risk management, performance ...

Mason Stevens releases global equity managed account

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... "Advisers are looking for managers who have a different approach to equities and who have demonstrated ability to actually add alpha. Caledonia has proven they can deliver this time and time again," said Bignill. Performance of the portfolio is expected ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... the report said. Only one of 103 large-cap domestic share funds posted a loss in the first quarter: Grant Samuel Tribeca Alpha Plus, falling 0.67 per cent, the report said. Morningstar said small-cap managers were able to outperform a falling market. ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... research houses." Research firms Aegis Equities Research, van Eyk and VanMac all issued reports mentioning the Absolute Alpha Fund, the former name of Astarra Strategic, none of them negative. In April 2007 a van Eyk Strategic Research Unit consultant ...

ING shelves global equities fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... market," said McKay. INGIM offers a range of institutional and wholesale funds to the Australian market, including the ING Alpha Plus Australian Share Fund, ING Extended Alpha Australian Share Fund and ING Wholesale Global Property Securities Fund.

Invesco switches quant team to value, ratings on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... year, the boutique firm managed about $3.5 billion in Australian equity assets. Invesco said at the time that Concord's alpha generation was 3 per cent per annum over three years and 2.4 per cent over five and ten years. Andrew Yap, fund services analyst ...

UniSuper second global tech mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... $200 million in US-firm, RCM. During the last 12 months the super fund upgraded global technology from a beta investment to alpha after completing extensive due diligence after allocating $300 million to a T. Rowe Price global technology fund in February. ...

Brookvine to drive BCS equities distribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... ability to process a mass of data on a real time basis into information about changes in share price enables BCS to capture alpha from timely and active investment decisions," said Herlihy. Steven Hall, chief executive officer, Brookvine, said his company ...