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Laminar awarded hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... top gong. PM Capital, Macquarie, Whitehaven and Pine River also took home awards in the long short, market neutral, global macro/futures and multi strategy categories respectively. K2 Advisers was named best offshore manager operating in Australia while ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
An increasing number of Australian investors are planning to make investments in overseas assets over the next three months, partly driven by a surprise lift in appetite for fixed income investments, according to the latest Certitude Global Investor ...

Strong credit-based strategies contenders in 2013 Hedge Fund Award nominations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... Neutral Fund - Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund, BlackRock 32 Capital Master USD, Macquarie Asian Alpha Fund Best Global Macro/Future Fund - GMO Systematic Global Macro Trust B, MST Capital Global Fund, Whitehaven SPC Correlation Fund Best Multi Strategy ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... markets region as a whole, according to Standard Life Investments investment director, global strategy Jason Hepner. The macro expert said investors must be highly selective with their regional asset allocation within the emerging markets universe as ...

AMP Capital builds presence in Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... running of the fund since 2008, has been appointed to the board of Standard Life Investments as head of multi-asset and macro investing. He will report to chief investment officer Rod Paris. The asset manager said the business's team culture meant the ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... many hedge fund managers avoid defining themselves as such, instead labeling their strategies as market neutral, low beta, macro, absolute return or long/short.

PIMCO expands Aussie portfolio management team

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... portfolios for institutional clients. Prior to that, he was a portfolio manager at AMP Capital Investors within the Fixed Income Macro Markets team. Thakur is the second person joining PIMCO's Australian team this year. "This reflects PIMCO's conviction ...

Slow growth and regulatory burden top insurance industry fears

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
Macroeconomic trends, a slow growth rate in an environment of lower asset returns and stricter regulation are the biggest risks to the insurance industry, according to a new report from Ernst & Young (EY). In Business Pulse: Exploring the dual perspectives ...

Service consumption bucks downward trend in EM equities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... university groups as well as cheaper student funding," Paul said. "This kind of growth will be very insulated to the current macro concerns swirling around emerging markets." While growth in the service sector of emerging markets offers attractive yields ...