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HFA's Lighthouse wins $500m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... placed into Lighthouse's managed accounts program and related funds. Currently Lighthouse offers a number of different hedge fund investment strategies through around 90 managed accounts. Last year in December, HFA signed a strategic partnership with ...

Zenith adds senior investment analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
Zenith Investment Partners adds former Future Fund equities head to its fold as part of its new appointments as the group plans further expansion. Bronwen Moncrieff has joined Zenith as senior investment analyst within the asset class research team ...

Dissident investors could prompt REIT revival

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
Corporate merger and acquisition activity could be set to spark the Australian REITs sector back to life as investors act to realise the value of net tangible assets (NTA). A-REITs continue to trade at an NTA discount with the sector still recovering ...

Charter Hall battling hedge funds over office REIT

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
Superannuation funds could have a say in the future of Charter Hall Office REIT's $2 billion Australian portfolio if a trio of US hedge funds continues to agitate for a sale. Charter Hall Office REIT has confirmed that it will sell 100 per cent of the ...

London hedge fund banking on Twitter

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
UK investment boutique Derwent Capital Markets is putting its faith in social media, launching a hedge fund that bases investments on real time insight into the "fear and greed" aspect of financial markets. The $40 million fund, launched earlier this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... across the board, including the banking sector, after three weak days. Microsoft jumped 2.0 per cent to $24.67 after hedge fund investor David Einhorn called for the company's board to get rid of chief executive Steve Ballmer. That was taken as a push ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Asian electronic trading platform provider Tora has launched a new compliance engine that enables clients to write targeted trading rules and helps with compliance. TORA Compass 7.0 allows users to create specific rules for particular orders, portfolios ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... headed for one-seven-o in three years time. "Global currency expert Savvas Savouri, of the British-based Toscafund hedge fund... predicts the dollar will reach $US1.30 by 2013 -- and $US1.70 by 2014, as the greenback relinquishes its "exorbitant privilege" ...

UBS expanding Asian fund business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... significant momentum," said the spokesman. The majority of UBS' Asia Pacific clients are Asian based investors, investing in hedge fund to fund or private equity fund to fund transactions. Lunn and his team will look to offer a 24-hour coverage to investors. ...