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...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
... the SSgA strategy is not an index at all, rather it's a synthetic replication of the investment styles that make up hedge funds. By using benchmarks from Hedge Fund Research, a hedge fund research group that monitors more than 6,000 hedge funds globally ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

... products covering more than 135,000 managed investment vehicles such as mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), hedge funds, and offshore funds. S&P will retain its ratings business but will get their historical fund data from Morningstar the same ...

Passive hedge fund investing in vogue

... that is traditionally opaque, their indexing methodology gives investors more transparency and disclosure about the hedge funds they are investing in. For example, the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is derived from a database of more than 4,500 ...

Pengana to ride the UK REIT wave

... third-party marketing services. Pillemer said the restructure is consistent with the sale late last year of Pengana Hedge Funds, the listed incubator of external hedge funds. This week head of hedge funds distribution, Damien Hatfield, left the company ...

Hatfield leaves Pengana

... September Hatfield reportedly sold his 15,000 shares in Pengana Managers weeks after a Packer-led consortium took over the hedge funds business, to be re-branded Magellan Financial Group. "I think what Chris Mackay and Hamish Douglas are doing has upside ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
London based fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home ...

Dig deeper to find value in hedge funds: Permal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
Hedge funds and their returns should not be a mystery, according to fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Permal Group, even if the hedge fund moniker is now so widely bandied around it is next to useless. "Saying something is a 'hedge fund' without ...

Beware of hedge risk: Deloitte

... valuation committee review as part of their regular operational risk management. Woodhouse warned, "It is difficult for hedge funds to get quality assets, which will stay for a while, increasing the need for proper risk management practices." It is worth ...

Austock launches into hedge fund sales

... sales business to start their own hedge fund sales team. Nicki Ashton and Michael Cori both worked as directors in hedge funds sales at Citigroup prior to their new role. "Nicki and Michael are considered in the top three in hedge fund sales in Australia ...

New year, new products, new chief

... fast shaping up to be a busy one for the group. "2007 will be a big year for OPAM, with the growth of our early stage hedge funds, our joint venture with GCI of Japan - GO Capital - and a number of new hedge funds we are bringing to market." "We are ...