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Perennial recruits investment specialists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Perennial Investment Partners has hired three new investment specialists to service the firm's planner and dealer group clients. John Negri has been appointed investment specialist servicing Victorian and South Australian financial planners. Andrew ...

Where did the money go?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Investments in international property, hedge funds and ethical investments have fallen sharply during the June quarter, Rainmaker data shows. The Rainmaker Roundup June quarter report found among the slowest growing sectors was international property ...

HFA appoints non-exec director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
HFA Accelerator Plus (HAP), a listed hedge fund, has appointed former HSBC Investment Banking Group executive Bill O'Neill as independent non-executive director. O'Neill was nominated by Carrousel Capital, one of HAP's largest shareholders holding approximately ...

Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm, Galleon Management, has been charged for insider trading that allegedly saw him pocket over $27 million in illicit gains. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, which laid ...

BUSS(Q) seeks Asian exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... equities investments in the last three months. The fund has terminated a $20 million investment with a listed fund of hedge fund, Dexion - a listed version of the Harris alternative fund of hedge funds product. A further $25 million mandate with Warakirri ...

Fortitude to launch Aus equity income fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Fresh from winning an award based on its performance strategy, hedge fund manager Fortitude Capital is launching a new Australian Equity Income fund with a twist. This month Fortitude won 2009 Hedge Fund of the Year and Best Market Neutral Fund for ...

TWUSUPER rejigs investment mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... solely on international LPTs, and is considering allocating more funds to credit, infrastructure, emerging markets and hedge fund managers. Andrew Killen, chief investment officer of TWUSUPER, said the fund had moved out of domestic LPTs completely on ...

Legalsuper seeks hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
The $1.2 billion legalsuper is looking to allocate mandates to hedge fund and credit investment managers. Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of the industry fund, said he was considering allocating between two to three per cent of the fund's current $1.2 ...

Treasury buys stake in two boutiques

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... Credit Suisse. Connelly was the head of equity research at Goldman Sachs JBWere and Lucas previously worked as head of hedge fund sales (Australia) at Credit Suisse before working at AR Capital Management. The fund manager manages the Ascot Fund, an ...

Regulators tighten grip on hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... to explore common reporting and regulations of hedge funds - developments that could set the template for Australian hedge fund regulation. The two financial services regulators said last week in a press statement that they would explore "common approaches ...