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Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Super funds could do more than rely on their custodians to manage their investment data, with one tech firm highlighting the benefits of taking the job in-house, ahead of APRA's more extensive data collection later this year. Historically, super funds ...

J.P. Morgan grants $1.3 bn HFoF mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan selected Arden Asset Management to manage a $1.3 billion proprietary hedge fund of funds portfolio for the investment bank. The deal means J.P. Morgan will seed seven of the hedge fund manager's funds and invest in Arden Asset Management's ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
US-based hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management hopes its forecast 20 per cent plus returns, lower fees and new liquidity rules will appeal to local super funds allocating new money into alternative strategies. Hedge funds are a hard sell these ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... indices as markets staged a recovery although long term figures depict a different picture, according to the latest hedge fund research. The global hedge fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 per cent in April while the S&P 500 posted 9.6 ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
To plug regulatory gaps that the Whitehouse believes precipitated the GFC, President Obama has proposed the biggest change to financial oversight since the New Deal. Central to the reforms are the creation of a Financial Oversight Council that will ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Super funds with unlisted assets can breathe easier knowing that more than 93 per cent of their alternative investment managers are strictly following their valuation policies, according to a survey by Frontier Investment Consulting. Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

Sunsuper terminates $200m Everest mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... chief executive Jeremy Reid. "Although we are pleased that the Sunsuper portfolio has outperformed relevant equity and hedge fund benchmark." Reid said Everest intended to focus on its absolute returns fund management business and as a result recently ...

FoHF gain liquidity tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Australian fund of hedge fund managers can manage liquidity levels in real time after Northern Trust enhanced the firm's Hedge Fund Monitor product. The feature, which is available via Northern Trust's relationship with youDevise, allows the fund of ...