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Fortitude launches retail offering

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Hedge fund manager Fortitude Capital is in talks with BT and Macquarie to include its soon to be launched retail offering, Aurora Fortitude Diversified Income Trust, onto their platforms. Sheriden Hure, senior portfolio manager at Fortitude Capital ...

US Commission subpoenas Goldman Sachs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... the firm failed to disclose vital information to investors about the CDO, in particular, the role played by a major hedge fund played in the portfolio selection process and the fact that it had taken a short position against the CDO.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
The Australian share market appears set for a flat start following its long weekend as a late fall on Wall Street overnight offset gains in Europe and Asia. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up five ...

H3 Global hits $250m mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... after tipping over the $250 million under management mark. Mathew Kaleel, director at H3 Global Advisors, said the hedge fund manager won a $30 million mandate with Local Government Super (LGS) around two months ago and he expects more to come after ...

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 ...