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Fortitude and Aurora merge to create $570m manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... planning dealer group to provide access to the fund manager's Absolute Return Trust. Alastair Davidson, head of institutional business at Aurora, said the merger would enhance the fund manager's asset management processes. "It will improve the cost effectiveness ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... share price index futures contract was 35 points lower at 4,784 points on a volume of 17,519 contracts. IG Markets institutional dealer Chris Weston said at below 4,800 points, the market was in value territory. It could have fallen lower given the potential ...

Tech aids capital markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... technology to protect themselves and the markets against such events. Dark pools, which refers to large block trades from institutional investors that aren't publicised, will be forced to change, according to Progress Software. The firm predicts dark ...

Instos switch $100bn mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
More than $100 billion of assets changed hands last year as institutional investors dump poor performing fund managers, re-negotiate fees and exploit asset class-specific opportunities, a new report found. Mercer has released its 2009 Global Manager ...

Diversa appoints ex-Souls fundie

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... Vincent Parrott as head of funds management for the Diversa Group. Parrott worked in leadership roles within the institutional funds management sector for AMP, SBC (now UBS Global Asset Management) and BT Funds Management. In 2001, he co-founded boutique ...

Fortitude close to deal with dealer group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... uncorrelated and low volatile returns," he said. Corr said the hedge fund is also meeting with asset consultants to gain institutional flows but that it's hard to gain momentum with some parts of the industry. "We've never had a lot to do with asset ...

Liptak joins Zenith

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... start up and expand Zenith's alternative research position, and draw on his hedge fund expertise to analyse funds to institutional and intermediary clients, including advisers and dealer groups. "Daniel has been an innovator and pioneer in the alternative ...

Wingate slams Everest governance, wants board out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... change because it is worried about the continued destruction of shareholder value. Last year, Everest lost one of its institutional investors, Sunsuper, after key executives resigned. Kent, one of the directors nominated, used to be the chair at Everest ...

Hedge fund Apeiron joins Blue Sky

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Macro Fund, has joined with Brisbane-based alternative strategies firm, Blue Sky Funds Management, to attract more institutional investment. David Hobart, managing director at Apeiron, said the hedge fund manages around $8 million and wants to build ...

Kinetic wins CBUS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... over a rolling three-year period. Sharp also confirmed that the firm had won another mandate from an Australian institutional investor, but the investment has not been funded as yet. "There's certainly more interest in the small cap sector at a wholesale ...