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Investors going in blind: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... investors have pushed the share price of US-based retailer Gamestop over 600% in the last week in a bid to short-squeeze hedge funds. The amateur investors, using the Reddit forum WallStreetBets, are reportedly targeting hedge fund Melvin Capital Management ...

Former Trump aide launches crypto fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... Rate. The minimum initial amount is US$50,000. Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital 16 years ago, which offers fund of hedge funds products and hedge fund advisory services. It uses a top-down portfolio management strategy and a bottom-up manager selection ...

Praemium sees benefits of scale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... efficiencies. The company said it plans to launch an alternative investments platform for Qualis Capital, offering a menu of hedge funds, private equity, real estate and private credit funds for sophisticated investors. Additionally, it will launch margin ...

First Sentier hires from AMP Capital

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... manager for AMP Capital's Absolute Return and Alternative Risk Premia funds. Kabashima was also a research analyst, hedge funds at EIM Management in New York and started her career as a financial adviser intern at Morgan Stanley in Los Angeles. In ...

Tourmaline hires two leads, expands footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... Sydney and the other will lead its newly established Dallas office. The trading solutions firm for asset managers and hedge funds named Yuki Shimada as director of Asia Pacific trading. He was most recently a senior equities trader at CBRE Clarion Securities ...

Praemium develops relationship with US platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... Qualis Capital's platform offers sophisticated investors funds in private equity, real estate, private debt and hedge funds. In May, Powerwrap signed an administration partnership with Qualis and also became its exclusive distributor in Australia. ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... managers. The survey found talent retention is the number one priority for 83% of private equity firms and 55% of hedge funds in Asia Pacific. Managers are also concerned with employee productivity, deterioration in firm culture and difficulty in training ...

Barrenjoey Capital hires from FIIG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... and has held a number of senior positions in the financial services industry. Prior to FIIG she was credit officer, hedge funds and financial institutions at UBS and associate director and senior analyst at Westpac Institutional Bank. She also held several ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... is added over broad market exposure (such as private equity) or for exposures which are truly diversifying (such as hedge funds)." However, the fund's latest profit and loss statement shows major downgrades to asset fair values, plummeting from $8.5 ...

Ratings house launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... wholesale, illiquid and listed investment products, as well as property syndicates, private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. It is looking to launch an ESG assessment framework in the near future. The fledgling research house, which has four ...