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S&P to rate its raters

S&P plans to put its own ratings to the test by conducting a study that will measure the success of its analyst recommendations. The group's head of fund ratings, Mark Hoven, spoke of the plans at a Securitor conference session debating whether fund ...

Macq multi-strategy fund recommended by Zenith

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... Macquarie Newton Multi-Strategy Fund provides investors with a unique investment opportunity to access alternative investment strategies within the one investment. We believe the investment team managing the fund is highly experienced, boasts a broad ...

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

... invest up to $1.5 billion in hedge funds over the next two to five years. Crucially, Kim Ivey, chair of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Australia, which commissioned the report, drew on the survey to suggest that the super funds ...

Alternatives go mainstream

Alternative investments are increasingly becoming mainstream, with 86 per cent of global institutional investors revealing plans to add hedge fund managers to their current portfolios and 67 per cent planning to hire private equity managers. The figures ...

Qld to dominate Future Fund board of guardians

Queenslanders may only account for only 8 per cent of funds management in Australia, but they control half the seats on the Future Fund board of guardians. The Government has just announced the appointment of six members of the Future Fund board of ...

New hedge fund managers need the right skills: AIMA

... 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. According to the recent report from AXISS Australia, a division of the ...

Select's alternatives "recommended"

Select Asset Management's (Select's) Alternatives Portfolio fund has been given "recommended" ratings from research houses, Lonsec and Zenith. The Alternatives Portfolio is a multi manager fund using selected listed and direct investments, including ...

TWUSUPER throws weight behind alternatives

TWUSUPER has cast tradition aside and has increased its asset allocation to 'alternatives' from 3 per cent to more than 25 per cent, with plans to spend at least $500 million in the asset class. After a comprehensive investment review done with Mercer ...

Sunsuper in the midst of super growth spurt

Sunsuper announced that is has gone beyond $8 billion in funds under management, supported by growth in its member base and its corporate superannuation business. Sunsuper has enjoyed growth in all areas of the business, especially in its pool of members ...

Sunsuper poach former asset consultants

Sunsuper has looked into the asset consulting industry to find its two recently appointed portfolio managers, a former UBS head of asset allocation and a former Intech asset consultant. The fund has appointed Michael Aked to focus on alternative investments ...