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A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... behalf of 50,000 investors in over 20 countries. It is a new entrant to the local market, launching one product, the Super Alpha Fund 1, to retail investors in November last year. The group had to add "Alpha" to its name for its local arm after discovering ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... doesn't take large intra and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said the fund's team is appropriately ...

Hedge that made the grade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... from Zenith Investment Partners. Only seven alternatives funds gained at least a 'recommended' rating. Morgan Stanley's FX Alpha Fund and FX Alpha Plus Fund along with the BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund - Class D and Select's Alternatives Portfolio ...

FMs predict comeback by 2012

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... lessons are learned. Pension plan investing really is a long term game and investment behaviour should mirror this...and alpha will always be in short supply and only reliably available to the very best investors," said Carl Hess, Watson Wyatt global ...

Morgan Stanley launches Aus Eq fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... 31, 2008 since its inception in July 2005. "Our approach has led to superior performance with the sustained generation of alpha in all market conditions, including the recent period of extreme volatility," said executive director Damien Green, head of ...

Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... represented by the Win-Loss Ratio where the industry average is 100 per cent and good ratio is about 110 per cent. That means the alpha from good decisions is 10 per cent more than that lost from poorer ones," said Amanda Field, Inalytics managing director. ...

Zenith ranks Martin Currie and Franklin Templeton

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... shares products by Martin Currie and Franklin Templeton to its recommended list. Zenith has tagged the Martin Currie Global Alpha Fund and the Franklin Global Growth Fund as highly recommended and recommended respectively. As a result, the ratings agency ...

Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... dispersion in the Australian share market will provide opportunities for fund managers in this sector to deliver their high alpha (excess return) targets, generally around 5 per cent above benchmark. "This sector is well suited to the current financial ...

Superfund opens alternatives fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Superfund Group is launching its Super Alpha Fund 1, providing investors with access to managed futures and market neutral long short strategies that have delivered more than 13 per cent per annum for more than a decade. The fund's strategy is based ...