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Future Fund chair attacks RSPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... infrastructure assets, instead preferring to hold its alternative assets in absolute return funds. It is now Australia's biggest hedge fund investor. Politics aside, Murray's comments referring to the inter-generational aspect of what to do with the ...

BT names head of income & fixed interest

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... management of its Global Aggregate Bond portfolios. The team managed around $48 billion and $1 billion in fixed income hedge fund assets. He has extensive experience in trading US and Japanese markets and a good knowledge of the Australian market after ...

BRW Rich 200 lists fin services best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... wealth at $2.3 billion. Further down the ladder, with an estimated wealth of $610 million is Phil Mathews. BRW said his hedge fund business, Mathews Capital Partners, bets on coal and coal seam gas companies had paid off in the past year. Michael Hintze ...

Martin Currie buys $480m hedge fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Martin Currie has bought Sofaer Capital's European long/short equity business, a hedge fund with more than $480 million in assets. The deal means the principals of the fund, Michael Browne and Steve Frost, join Martin Currie in July. Charlotte Dagg ...

Local unis smash US funds returns

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Local university endowment funds investments performed three times better than their US counterparts - a trend that looks set to continue as local institutions up the ante on alternative assets. According to a Mercer report that surveyed 27 institutions ...

Select wins AXA and CFS mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Select Asset Management's Alternatives Portfolio has been added to the AXA North platform and CFS FirstWrap. The Select Alternatives Portfolio went live on the AXA North platform on 10 May, and CFS FirstWrap on 1 June. A press statement from Select ...

Regal bags hedge fund award

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... than 14 per cent per year on average, net of fees, in the past five years. The fund previously won the Best Australian Hedge Fund at the same award's ceremony in 2008.

Man Group buys $27bn alternatives manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... operations team for both firms, said Man Group in a statement. According to Reuters, the deal creates the second largest hedge fund firm in the world behind J.P. Morgan. GLG and Man's quantitative investment styles have a low correlation, which provides ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... of the Absolute Return Unit. Prior to his appointment at GESB, Schultz helped establish and manage a multi-strategy hedge fund in South Africa while at Coronation and was the chief strategist and founder member of Capital Alliance Asset Managers, also ...

Global hedge fund market shows signs of life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Hedge fund start-ups are attracting money from large institutional investors after the global financial crisis pushed many small to mid-tier hedge funds out of the market. Ben Funk, managing director and head of research at Liongate Capital Management ...