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PIMCO hiring for 20 new roles in Asia expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... and non-core fixed income, wealth management clients are expressing interest in the areas of income, credit, and alternatives. "We attribute this interest to a desire to avoid the financial repression of low to negative interest rates, earn sustainable ...

Investors hard up for alternatives opportunities

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
Fund terms set by alternatives managers are turning away institutional investors, according to Preqin research. Preqin's survey of 490 institutional investors suggests that "at least" 80% of respondents had previously decided not to invest in an alternatives ...

Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... conventional feed. That's where the real exciting stuff starts to come out," she said. VicSuper head of equities and alternatives, Kevin Wan Lum, said the $16.5 billion fund has invested in agriculture and farmland since the mid-2000s. The fund currently ...

AB to acquire hedge fund manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
AllianceBernstein has entered into an agreement to acquire an alternatives investment manager. Ramius Alternative Solutions, which is jointly owned by Ramius LLC and principals Stuart Davies and Vikas Kapoor, manages over US$3 billion and operates multi- ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Local hedge funds are still battling super funds' preference to look offshore for alternatives exposure, according to Hedge Funds Rock and The Australian Hedge Fund Awards co-founder Kim Ivey. Ahead of the awards night in September, Ivey said this is ...

BTFG shutters alternatives fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
BT Financial Group has confirmed the winding up of one of its popular alternatives funds. The Advance Alternatives Strategies Multi-Blend Fund was terminated on 14 June and is being managed by Ramius Alternative Solutions until the wind up is completed ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... be a key goal; Cerulli's research revealed Invesco Perpetual and Standard Life achieved such a rating not only in alternatives and multi-asset respectively, but also won top five rankings across two asset classes. "The key to success in a competitive ...

BTFG alternatives head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
BT Financial Group's head of alternatives at BT Investment Solutions has left the company. Chris Thompson joined BT in 2005 as a portfolio manager for multi-manager funds. He was a founding member of the team. He moved onto the head of alternatives ...

BNPP IP appoints head of advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... availability of our investment solutions in Australian and global equities, emerging markets, global fixed income and alternatives to the advised segment." Reporting to Grybas, Langlands will commence this newly created role in mid-August.

AQR fund receives Lonsec upgrade

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... light of recent market volatility," said AQR principal and head of the firm's Australian office, Jeff Dunn. "The alternatives peer group has evolved considerably since the Fund's inception in 2009, reflecting the increasing demand we are seeing from ...