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Rivals join hands for AustralianSuper

... private equity asset classes. JANA will be responsible for international equities, currency, fixed interest, cash and hedge funds. As for asset allocation, the fund will receive advice from both consultants although a source said AustralianSuper will ...

Illiquidity to test retail investors: AMP

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
... avoiding the more traditional "alternatives" and only investing in what they call "liquid" assets or strategies, such as hedge funds. "If you restrict yourself to just liquid investments, that's one way to do it, but you don't end up with alternatives ...

Jana offers long-short trusts to retail space

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... investors a taste of traditionally institutional strategies, such as "long and short selling" stocks, similarly to hedge funds. Marshman said the strategies have long been used to limit market downturns and make money when stock's values are plummeting. ...

Netwealth upgrades with even more flexibility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... premiums. Netwealth's latest PDS announces a range of initiatives that include increasing allowable allocations to hedge funds from 20 per cent to 50 per cent, allowing certain listed warrants to be included in client portfolios, adding standard and ...

Super funds keep tills ringing at Harris Alternatives

Superannuation funds are ramping up their fund of hedge funds (FOHF) allocation with IXIS-owned Harris Alternatives reporting an astonishing six-fold increase in funds from $170 million two years ago to $1.17 billion currently. Harris Alternatives is ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

An academic survey has predicted that current allocation by major super funds to hedge funds will jump by $1.5 billion in the next two to five years, an increase from the current average allocation of 2.9 per cent to 4.1 per cent. The University of ...

Alternatives go mainstream

... them." Nearly half of the survey's respondents also said they have 5 per cent or more of their portfolios invested in hedge funds, with 44 per cent of those investing 10 per cent or more, up from 35 per cent in 2004. But Jana's managing director of asset ...

Hedge funds expect more USD rallies: Greenwich-Van

... be very difficult to coax hedge fund managers to bolster the AUD if it comes under pressure which, given the role hedge funds play in the markets now, is a significant issue. This comes on the back of recent falls in the AUD, with another decline recorded ...

New hedge fund managers need the right skills: AIMA

The country's $22 billion hedge funds industry will continue to grow at phenomenal rates, but the challenge is to ensure new hedge fund managers have the right skills, said the Alternative Investment Management Association's (AIMA) chairman Kim Ivey. ...

RBC Dexia scores FOHF mandate

RBC Dexia Investor Services has been awarded the right to manage the new fund of hedge funds business for PKB Privatbank AG of Switzerland. The role will involve RBC Dexia managing the legal set up, fund administration, compliance, transfer agency and ...