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Instinet adds four to Sydney office

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... BZW, JBWere and ITG. Lai joined the firm from Credit Suisse. He has also spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citi and UK hedge fund DPFM. Meanwhile, Heavener also previously worked at Credit Suisse and has experience across back, middle and front office roles. ...

ERSEL selects RIMES for tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... it set up the first mutual fund management company authorised in Italy and, in 2000, was one of the pioneers in the hedge fund sector. With a staff of 170 people employed in its three offices in Italy and its office in Luxembourg, Ersel now offers its ...

Future Fund slashes cash for alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has halved its 30 per cent allocation to cash in three months - with alternative assets getting the biggest boost in allocation following the move. The Future Fund's allocation to cash in September stood at 31.6 per cent ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... the GFC limping, will also be on the red alert list of investors. Many will undertake stronger due diligence on their hedge fund strategies, and some will rethink their approach to investing in the sector, predicts Mercer. Another big trend expected ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... to joining Renaissance Group in 2006, Harvey was a founding partner at Bennelong Asset Management, a multi strategy hedge fund focused on Asia Pacific region. He spent 10 years at Credit Suisse in a number of investment banking roles with his last role ...

Frontier reweighs alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
Asset consultant Frontier is reviewing its alternatives portfolios in the first quarter of this year, a move that could potentially pump up to $2.5 billion of new money into the sector. Frontier's deputy managing director Kristian Fok said the review ...

Hedge funds on incubators watch list

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... next year. Andrew Landman, chief executive of Ascalon said there is increasing demand from institutional investors for hedge fund managers following the aftermath of the GFC, with plenty of scope for smart hedgies to win mandates - provided they improved ...

AQR receives strong ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... noting within its report "The key attraction of the fund for investors is the ability to get access to a broad range of hedge fund strategies within a relatively low cost, transparent and liquid investment product". S&P assigned a four-star rating to ...

Funds under management post record jump

RAINMAKER GROUP IS THE OWNER OF FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
The value of assets managed by investment managers jumped 9 per cent during the September 2009 quarter to reach $1.39 trillion, the biggest quarterly increase in seven years, according to the latest research from Rainmaker. Rainmaker's upbeat market ...

Brookvine appoints director and manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... has wide experience in the alternative assets universe, with particular expertise across a broad spectrum of credit, hedge fund and private markets investment strategies. Brookvine also announced that Tim Peters has recently been promoted to the position ...