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Super funds flex muscle on alternative asset fees

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
Super funds are becoming increasingly flexible when structuring fees for their alternative investments, said Ray King, director of Sovereign Investment Research. "There is a fair degree of flexibility in structuring different strategies to suit different ...

Hedge fund adviser gets $2.7m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
A US hedge fund adviser will have to cough up $2.7 million to settle SEC charges for breaching short selling rules. The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged Dallas-based Carlson Capital for breaching a regulation which prevents short ...

HSBC wins Ascalon mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... HSBC will become Ascalon's sole securities services provider in Australia. Ascalon will get access to HSBC's global hedge fund administration. Ascalon's funds under management has risen over the last twelve months to around $3.5 billion, due to its stakes ...

Select mandates AQR and Och Ziff Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Select Asset Management has appointed AQR Capital Management and Och Ziff Capital Management Group to its hedge fund manager line-up as part of a strategy revamp. AQR and Och Ziff Capital's mandates will be part of the hedge fund component within Select's ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
There are significant weaknesses in the concept of asset-based fees as a means of remuneration for fund managers, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) in conjunction with actuary RiceWarner. The asset ...

Yuan revaluation drives hedge fund flows

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... attempting to take advantage of China's moves towards increased currency flexibility, according to a note by US-based Hedge Fund Research. Asian hedge funds experienced net inflows of $360 million in the second quarter, reversing the net asset outflows ...

Sovereign keeps overweight to distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Alternatives expert Sovereign Investment Research is recommending its superannuation clients remain overweight to specific distressed debt strategies ahead of expected defaults from small US-based companies. Ray King, managing director at Sovereign ...

Brakes on new hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... institutional investors. "Although we have seen signs of life in this sector, with $14 billion of inflows into the global hedge fund industry in the [first quarter] of 2010, this is still substantially lower than the $111 billion per annum in inflows ...

US fin reforms win pension fund support

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
The biggest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, has applauded President Barack Obama's new federal financial reform law that holds credit rating agencies more accountable for their ratings and imposes tougher requirements on hedge funds. The $233 billion-plus ...

Goldman Sachs pay $620m to settle SEC lawsuit

SEC RELEASE, BLOOMBERG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... April 2007, a deal was closed for the collateralised debt obligation (CDO) called the ABACUS 2007-AC1, where prominent hedge fund Paulson & Co. Inc was involved in the portfolio selection process - yet it was alleged that the hedge fund manager shorted ...