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AIMA boosts executive committee

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has appointed two new members to its executive committee. David Kent, executive chairman of Everest Babcock & Brown, and David Travers, managing director of investor services at State Street Australia ...

SELECT tops hedge fund ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
Two of Select Asset Management's (SELECT) alternative investment funds have topped Standard & Poor's (S&P) hedge fund rankings with both receiving five star ratings. The Select Gottex Market Neutral Fund and a two times leveraged version of the fund ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
Last night around 40 candidates were awarded their Chartered Financial AnalystA(R) (CFAA(R)) charter at a dinner in Sydney, part of the record 228 Australian candidates who will become eligible for a CFAA(R) charter this year. To earn a CFAA(R) charter ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Super funds increasing their allocations to hedge funds and absolute strategies are not increasing their risk weightings because such strategies are really aimed at adding greater diversification. Scott MacDonald, managing director of VanMac Global ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

HSBC alternatives eyes off Australian entry

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
HSBC Bank's Hong Kong based alternative investments group is the next in line among an array of international hedge fund managers lining up to enter the Australian market. Speaking at last month's Portfolio Construction Forum conference, senior director ...

Alternatives appetite triggers Russell re-shuffle

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
Russell Investment Group has reshuffled its Australian alternative assets team and brought on board a new team member in response to the increasingly aggressive appetite of Australian superannuation funds for alternative investments. Russell's director ...

BT backs new hedge fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... offering, BT will be able to provide institutional and retail investors with access to a specialist manager and alternative investment strategies through BT's institutional sales team, wrap platforms and financial planning businesses."

MTAA speeds past $4bn

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... necessarily from the motor trades, who are particularly taken with the fund's progressive and well performed alternative investment program and strategies. "Reaching $4 billion in funds under management is also important in that it will afford us the ...