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Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... supporting Australian Managers Winner Telstra Super Best Fund of Fund 2008 Winner Investor Select Advisors Global Opportunity Fund Finalist Pioneer AllWeather (AUD) Absolute Return Fund Finalist FRM - Absolute Alpha Fund PCC Limited Diversified (AUD) ...

AUI and Wingate form JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... manager. Subject to unit holder approval, the joint venture will see AUI take over the management of the Wingate Opportunity Fund and Wingate Spectrum Fund. This is the fourth boutique funds management joint venture for AUI, in addition to its two wholly ...

Alternative investment giant eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... other businesses in Asia include its corporate private equity fund (Blackstone Capital Partners), real estate opportunity fund (Blackstone Real Estate Partners), fund of hedge funds business and two closed-end mutual funds (The India Fund and The Asia ...

Valad splurges $138m for debut purchase

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... to heart as it wastes little time in snapping up three London office properties with its newly established UK Opportunity Fund. The $137.8 million purchase is the first investments made by the fund which raised $340 million in debt and equity in its ...

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... property market. Valad announced last week the close of its first capital raising for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector opportunities in the UK. HBOS entity, Bank of Scotland, has since become a cornerstone equity investor ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... bubble and warned investors to diversify as a result. Portfolio Partners has also launched a new Interest Rate Opportunity Fund, which will trade interest rate futures contracts on the ASX and Sydney Futures Exchange. The fund will use senior fixed interest ...

Microcap a winning formula at Cygnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... microcap stocks. Jonathan Rosham, co-founder of microcap specialist Cygnet Capital, will run Cygnet Microcap opportunity fund using the same template that worked well at Vision Asset Management, an investment company that he also manages. Last year ...

Basis Capital takes top hedge funds honour

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Basis Capital took home the award for Australian Hedge Fund of the Year with its Basis Aust-Rim Opportunity Fund at last night's Hedge Funds Rock awards presentation. Held at Sydney's Home nightclub, 550 attendees were on hand for the fifth annual Hedge ...

Sunsuper bankroll Carnegie Wylie's alternative assets

... some great terms and conditions for members." Sunsuper will pour $100 million into Carnegie, Wylie's corporate opportunity fund No.1 and No.2 and will have first rights over further investments in both the Carnegie, Wylie corporate opportunity fund No.2 ...

S&P gives Basis funds Five Stars

Standard & Poor's (S&P) have given five star ratings to two Basis Capital funds, the Basis Aust Rim Opportunity Fund and the Basis Yield Fund. The "very strong" rating has been awarded to Basis on the back of what S&P fund analyst Simon Scott says is ...