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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 ...

Equity based strategies hedge fund winners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... and Macquarie lost out on the top spot, with equity-based strategies dominating the talent field. Regal Tasman Market Neutral Fund was awarded Australian Hedge Fund of the Year and Best Market Neutral Fund for 2011 at the annual Cure Our Kids Australian ...

Brookvine to drive BCS equities distribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... equities. BCS launched four products to the market six months ago, featuring two long only strategies, a long short market neutral strategy and an equitised long short strategy. Chief Investment Officer Justin Herlihy said that Brookvine's expertise ...

Plato poaches GMO quant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... Plato at this time in our development" said Hamson. "A key focus for Plato is 'long-short' - including 130/30 and market neutral strategies - and Mark's experience at GMO will significantly enhance our capabilities in these areas."