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PM Capital wins Zenith award

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Zenith has named PM Capital the best fund manager for international equities - alternatives. At the 2015 Zenith Fund Awards, PM Capital's Global Companies Fund was recognised for its 17-year track record and experienced investment team. "The Global ...

Lazard launches new alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Lazard Asset Management has launched a new long/short European equity fund. The Lazard European Alternative Fund, which is UCITS compliant, comprises a liquid portfolio of around 60 European large and mid-cap stocks, both long and short, selected on ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... year from 33.1% in 2014. The rest of their allocation is in equities (26.5%), cash (21.6%), fixed income (9.5%) and alternatives (11.65%). Of HNW's alternative investments, 23.6% is in private equity. The report surveyed wealthy Australians' preferred ...

Monash absolute return fund goes retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... but is not aligned with investor preferences," Winston partner Andrew Fairweather said. "The fund might sit in the alternatives asset class because of its cash based objective, its unconstrained investment universe and its ability to hold cash and short ...

ASIC would "rarely" ban products

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... harm them." He added that "most interventions would likely fall well short of product banning." As an example of alternatives to product bans, Medcraft highlighted requesting amendments to marketing material, warnings, selective product feature bans ...

The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... stocks highlights specific investment characteristics that investors are looking for as liquid components of different alternatives allocations including natural resources, infrastructure and real assets," he explained. "Trying to find a home for water ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... led by Aberdeen Asset Management head of hedge funds Russell Barlow - who will, in turn, report to global head of alternatives Andrew McCaffery. Commenting on the launch, McCaffery said, "Alternative investment strategies are becoming increasingly central ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported record profit and assets under management as investors find growth in alternatives. The manager reported an underlying net profit after tax of $10.4 million for the year to 30 June 2014, 68% up from $6.2 ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... unpredictable consequences as the best talent disappears to the opaque family office sector. Ibbotson Associates head of alternatives Craig Stanford thinks the situation in Australia is "almost like a brain drain." He said that focus on low fees, transparency ...

SSFS meets client demand for phone advice

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... Bradley said that in the past, SSFS advice was almost exclusively face-to-face. "Clients still want that, but they want alternatives on how to receive and consume advice," he explained. The development of the phone "hub" formed part of SSFS' wider advice ...