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ING Aussie eq fund gets three stars

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services assigns a three-star rating to the newly-launched ING Alpha Plus Australian Equity Fund. The fund is a long-only active manager that uses fundamental stock selection to construct a high-conviction portfolio. "Though the ...

Brakes on new hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... 'highly recommended' rating including the BlackRock Scientific Global Markets fund, Aspect Diversified Futures fund, Man AHL Alpha and Winton Global Alpha fund. The AQR Delta fund was added to the 'recommended' list. "The distribution of ratings in the ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... disaster. Clay Carter, head of international equities at Perennial Investment Partners, said the Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund has shareholdings in US-based businesses Cooper Cameron and FMC Technologies. This follows the BP Deepwater Horizon ...

Omega hires Vanguard exec

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... solutions for institutions such as currency hedging strategies, asset and liability matching, cash flow rebalancing, beta or alpha transport and derivative overlays. Kwee holds a CFA designation along with a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Information ...

Sigma buys CPG Research & Advisory

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Sigma Alpha International Limited (SAIL) has bought asset consulting firm CPG Research & Advisory, a consultancy firm with around $11 billion of assets under advice. The sale is part of a new asset consulting and funds management business established ...

Global hedge fund market shows signs of life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... fund market could be attributed to larger institutional investors including pension funds looking for different sources of alpha again. In addition, he said pension funds are also targeting HFoF providers that can give access to small to mid-size hedge ...

Mercer appoints CIO in UK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
Mercer has appointed investment veteran Bill Muysken to the new role of chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies, based in the UK. Muysken rejoins Mercer after spending the last three years in the hedge fund industry. He spent the early ...

Alpha Fund Managers signs Amundi

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
Alpha Fund Managers has added Amundi VaR8 Absolute Return Strategy to its multi-manager lineup. Richard Borysiewicz, chief executive at Amundi Asset Management Australia, said the VaR8 strategy was launched in 2007 and has more than $60 million in funds ...

Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... a separately managed account (SMA) using the Aurora Sandringham Global Shares Fund strategy, which focuses on generating alpha from the Earnings Announcement Premium (EAP). The EAP strategy exploits market inefficiencies around the announcement of earnings ...

INGIM builds distribution from ground up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... development managers in the coming months, alongside more staff, as they make their push to distribute their two new 'high alpha' Australian equities capabilities, Alpha Plus and Extended Alpha. While the products are new, the Extended Alpha already ...