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ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ASIC has extended the ban on covered short selling of financial stocks until 6 March, opposing the move of its UK counterpart FSA, which lifted its shorting ban last week. The regulator is concerned about lifting the ban after the Financial Services ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... allocation, which was developed at the end of 2007, is still relevant but may be slightly altered to factor in events in the hedge fund sector and the risk of inflation, said Wilkin-Smith. The initial strategic asset allocation recommended using caution ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Shariah-compliant hedge funds could outperform their traditional hedge fund counterparts this year, predicts Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research at Thomson Reuters Lipper. Gentilini said that Shariah-compliant hedge funds stand to ...

FMs predict comeback by 2012

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
A Watson Wyatt survey of global fund managers representing more than $14 trillion found most respondents expect stock markets to return to historical levels by 2012. The global survey, conducted last month, also found sentiment on this year's market ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting hired hedge fund researcher, Ching Lee as an analyst. Lee previously worked at Shadforth Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
One of the country's long-established value fund manager Anton Tagliaferro has urged the Federal Government to re-instate the shorting ban because short-selling threatens the ability of listed companies to raise much-needed equity capital in the next ...

Quattro fund on ice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... but chose not to given the clouds on the investment horizon at the time," he said. Vault 08 was a capital guaranteed hedge fund replication strategy for retail clients. The fund provided exposure to five UBS proprietary investment strategies including ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... includes superannuation funds. Before joining The Cambridge Strategy, Colehan worked for UBS O'Connor's Currency and Rates hedge fund from 1999. As portfolio manager, he traded G14 and emerging markets foreign exchange and interest rate products. Between ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Fund manager First Quadrant returned 12 per cent in the three months to September by taking a contrarian view on how to exploit volatility in equities, debt and currency markets. The California-based manager, represented locally by Affiliated Managers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... with stocks plunging, recovering and then plunging again as investors absorbed another wave of downbeat economic news. Hedge fund selling in advance of a Saturday deadline contributed to the market's gyrations, which set back the Dow Jones industrials ...