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AIMA aims for greater hedge fund disclosure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Amid the background of hedge fund collapses both locally and in the US, the Alternative Investment Management Association of Australia (AIMA) today released new risk disclosure guidelines for Australian hedge funds. The voluntary guidelines, developed ...

Deutsche Asset Management head quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
... broadening the product range from its initial domestic manufacturing base to become a leading global and alternative investment house in Australia.

Alternatives rewrite custody

The alternative investments frenzy that has swept the local market in the last two years has prompted Australia's largest custodians to go back to the drawing board and set up units specialising in reporting the exotic and not-so-exotic investment asset ...

HFA finds Lighthouse leads to global growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
HFA has agreed to purchase US-based alternative investment manager Lighthouse Partners for A$707 million in cash and shares - approximately 11 times Lighthouse's estimated FY08 EBITDA - as the new business focuses on growing its global alternatives ...

Absolute differences among hedge funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... that may result in a return of less than 50 cents in the dollar to unit holders. A representative of the Alternative Investment Management Association, Damien Hatfield, said there were only two other local hedge funds that had the same investment profile ...

Wyllie launches new 'niche within a niche' company

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... Coleman said Viburnum planned to launch other funds with a similar niche focus and an ability to offer an alternative investment exposure with an absolute return focus.

Skandia parts ways with Mercer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
Skandia has bowed to the inevitable and replaced Mercer Investment Consulting with in-house consultancy Intech as its portfolio construction adviser from next month, ending uncertainty over where the two companies sat within the business. Speculation ...

Antares teams with Lodestar for absolute returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
Antares Capital Partners, a recently formed alternative investment business within the NAB Group, has teamed with Lodestar Capital Partners to launch a new absolute return fund. The Antares Lodestar Absolute Return Trust aims to deliver stable absolute ...

Intech courts alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
Skandia's 2006 acquisition Intech has ramped up its exposure to alternative investment strategies with the launch of its Global Trading Strategies Trust II (GTSII) diversified alternatives trust. "Intech's diversified trust investors now have the opportunity ...

Balanced funds tip towards alternatives

... allocation by 1.6 per cent, decreased their Australian equities by more than 1 per cent and increased their alternative investment by around 2.5 per cent. Allocation to international fixed interest and cash were largely unchanged in the past five years. ...