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Bennelong Long Short Equity Management launches new fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... launched a new Australian equities strategy, the Bennelong Alpha 200 Fund (the Fund). The Fund is a long/short market neutral strategy with the objective of generating consistent returns regardless of market conditions. The investment team applies fundamental ...

Laminar awarded hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... runners-up for the top gong. PM Capital, Macquarie, Whitehaven and Pine River also took home awards in the long short, market neutral, global macro/futures and multi strategy categories respectively. K2 Advisers was named best offshore manager operating ...

Strong credit-based strategies contenders in 2013 Hedge Fund Award nominations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... Australian Leaders Fund, LHC Capital Australia High Conviction Fund, PM Capital Absolute Performance Fund AUD Best Market Neutral Fund - Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund, BlackRock 32 Capital Master USD, Macquarie Asian Alpha Fund Best Global Macro/Future ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... serves up an opportunity to short companies likely to post disappointing results, according to Pengana Captial market neutral portfolio manager Phillip Boustridge. Market neutral equity strategies combine long and short positions to hedge out the overall ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... portfolios. It has also recently been made available to Australian institutional investors. Best described as a market neutral multi-asset fund, it aims to deliver 5% above the cash rate by deploying an array of approaches. With market risk hedged out ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... bad press image, many hedge fund managers avoid defining themselves as such, instead labeling their strategies as market neutral, low beta, macro, absolute return or long/short.

BlackRock earns double honours at hedge fund awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
The BlackRock Australian Equity Market Neutral Fund received double honours at the annual Cure Our Kids Australian Hedge Fund Awards last night, winning awards for Australian hedge fund of the year, and best market neutral fund. The wholesale fund delivered ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... said. AIMA will be working with the risk teams of a number of super funds on researching Australian long/short and market neutral managers in order to establish a data bank for funds looking to move out of Australian equities or fixed interest, Ivey ...

Improve risk management to target fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... returns," said O'Connor. Responding to this, some of these fund of hedge funds are trying to better implement their market neutral strategies and "make sure that it diversifies and provides stronger returns; particularly when equities are performing ...

Instreet launches structured product

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... with the interest payments that are lost if the reference index remains flat," he added. The ComBATS index is a market neutral commodity alpha strategy, involving long/short positions in 10 commodities including crude oil, natural gas and aluminum. The ...