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Pengana's hedge fund arm finds a new home

Malcolm Turnbull's brainchild and 'house of hedge funds' Pengana Hedge Funds has been turned over to a new consortium, including James Packer and former UBS investment bank chairman, Chris Mackay, who will also be launching a new long only global equities ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... Retreating hedge fund returns are putting hedge fund fees under increased scrutiny, especially the double fees in funds of hedge funds (FOHF), and this is seeing more attention shift to single manager multi-strategy funds which are more likely to add ...

Hedge funds set to splurge on IT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
In the past the hedge funds sector has not proven fertile ground for IT providers, but a new report suggests all that is about to change with the sector's IT investment set to grow to $3.3 billion by 2009. A new report from Datamonitor, Securities Processing ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... hitting capacity caps. "Strategies that can provide consistent upside return but without market risk - such as some hedge funds and market neutral funds - are hard to find and often hard to access due to capacity constraints," he said. The portfolio ...

New Sydney FOHF entrant wins global award

A European fund of hedge funds (FOHF) manager that's just set up an office in Sydney has bagged the coveted Global Investor Investment Excellence Award handed out in London last month. The 105-year old award winning hedge fund group, Stenham Asset Management ...

Man and Eurex seal derivatives future

... capital injection of US$35 million into USFE. "USFE will offer new products targeted at buy-side customers such as hedge funds and retail investors, sectors in which Man Group has significant expertise and market exposure," said the group. It added ...

Macq merges hedge funds to form $1bn MQ

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
Macquarie Bank's Equity Markets Group has announced that it is combining its separate hedge fund businesses under the name MQ Specialist Investment Management (MQ) to form a combined $1 billion heavy hitter. Greg Mackay, the head of newly formed MQ ...

REST hits $10.5bn on a strong FY06

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
... are in a stronger and more "defensive" position, due to its increased allocations to cash, alternative assets and hedge funds and a strategic asset allocation goal of 11 per cent. "We will be reporting to members, that in our core strategy we have just ...

Banks burdened by regulatory overkill

... over-regulation, survey respondents also complained about political interference, fluctuating commodity prices and activities of hedge funds and derivative traders as critical issues facing the sector today. Michelle Baltazar

S&P international review highlights higher risk appetite

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
... short managers, who have the ability to use derivatives as an "extra tool", said Hanel, rather than likening them to hedge funds, most of whom had maximum shorting constraints of around 20 per cent. He added that the review highlighted the fact that ...