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Aurora targets retail investors with liquid hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... which is PEAK6 Advisors, who Financial Standard met with in February. These feature of mixture of long/short equity, credit, macro, event driven and short biased approaches. The fund has been seeded with $108 million but Schweighauser sees no reason ...

A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... certainly made money from your turnover, but you...what was in it for you? If only you tattooed on your foreheadthe general macro theme ever since Uncle Ben set QE3 a-sailing last 13 September -- bad news is good news in terms of Fed policy and good ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... nature is probably less indicative of any belief in the gossip than of the general nervousness amongst traders, as the bleak macro backdrop combines with wild commodity swings, acts of terrorism and unravelling geopolitical situations in North Korea ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... later pulled back to 98.93 yen. "Equities bounced slightly from last week's selling in early European trade... as a quiet macro calendar fed a relatively low volume, range-bound session," said CMC Markets UK trader Alex Young. But "the market was in ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Oh-em-gee! That slowly revving engine of the world economy is running out of puff. Woe is us, we're in trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest of the year. Yes folks, the macro theme of rotation and reflation remains in play in spite of some bumps along the way. Bet you still remember the corrections ...

Five Oceans CIO steps down

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... investment platform using his skills as an acknowledged expert in the technology sector and thought leadership regarding macro trends. We wish him well in his future endeavours," he said. Youngman added that, with more than 40 years investment experience ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... "Cyprus is a specific case with exceptional challenges, which required the bail-in measures we have agreed upon yesterday. Macro-economic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used." ...

Hedge fund inflows set to double

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... other asset classes institutions have been more willing to accept returns of 5%," he said. Korinke went on to explain that macro hedge fund strategies, which performed so strongly in the aftermath of the GFC, may have had their day in the sun. "Macro ...

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Australia's equity market volatility benchmark, the S&P/ASX 200 VIX (VIX), will be made available in real-time, the ASX has announced. This will provide the market with intra-day volatility information and importantly, enables ASX to create derivative ...