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Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... academic who presented at a hearing on financial services before the US Congress in 2007, said his latest research on hedge fund due diligence found that the sector has turned lying to investors into a fine art. "We find that incomplete and inaccurate ...

No transparency, no mandates: ARIA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Hedge fund managers will need to drastically improve their transparency and communication strategies - or face losing mandates from institutional managers, including the $17 billion ARIA. Lochiel Crafter, chief executive of ARIA, said one of the major ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... being a specialist investment house that will be the next industry template. Forbes, who carved his career as a top hedge fund manager at GLG, one of the largest hedge funds in Europe, recalls his early days at Merrill Lynch when absolute return investing ...

Intech adds investment experience

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... and trusts and is now a member of the Intech Investment Committee. Stanford spent the past eight years researching hedge fund managers and managing institutional fund of fund hedge fund portfolios in London and Sydney at Ellerston Capital and ABN AMRO ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received a strong lead from US securities trading on Wall Street and gold again was higher, although other metals and oil were lower. At 0818 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was ...

Man and CS launch managed account service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Man Investments and Credit Suisse have teamed up to launch a managed accounts service to institutional investors worldwide. Under the initiative, Man Investments will be responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of managers. The firm has ...

Telstra Super seeks investment experts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
Australia's largest corporate super fund, Telstra Super, is looking to for a property portfolio manager and alternatives professional to join its investment team. Telstra Super is putting out its feelers for a portfolio manager - property to manage ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Asset consultant Frontier, which has $91 billion in funds under advice, has sent a letter last week to all the external fund managers of its super fund clients to consider charging flat dollar fees, instead of asset-based fees, on their investment mandates. ...

Four pillars of a good hedge fund: Ashton

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... Advisors, which has links to the highly successful Paulson funds in the US, said Paulson's four pillars of running a solid hedge fund stems from a transparent model that focuses on independence. Raphaely comments that while some of the rules pertain ...

Galleon sinks $4bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... Rajaratnam, for insider trading. In a scandal that rocked New York's Manhattan set, Rajaratnam became the latest high profile hedge fund manager criminally charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged insider trading. Robert Khuzami ...