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Improve returns by picking losers: Triguboff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... Triguboff, managing director of MIR Investment Management. Speaking at the ipac Thought Leaders Event "Finding tomorrow's alpha", Tribuboff explained that both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investment can drive returns, at the same time ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... said Macoun. "We will deliver an environment for top quality investment professionals to get on with the job of delivering alpha." Macoun added that Pinnacle's house of boutiques model is a solution to existing boutique managers "nearing capacity", new ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... scrutiny." This has also forced some investors to ask if they might be paying a high price for beta returns dressed up as alpha, she said. "As a result, more institutions are seeking alternative means of gaining hedge fund exposure. Increasingly, multi-alpha ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

... (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable alpha team will select a combination of managers handpicked ...

UniSuper revises major mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... The review also saw an increase in UniSuper's allotment to boutique managers, emerging markets and into more aggressive alpha generating strategies like concentrated portfolios and long/short portfolios. Some of the changes brought about by the review ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
The alpha trend has stepped neatly over to the fixed income space, with Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) being the latest fund manager to announce the roll-out of a new high yield fixed income fund. The announcement comes only a week after global fund ...

Emerging markets can't stand alone

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... sense to allocate to purely emerging markets funds, which may lack the perspective, global depth and flexibility to chase alpha on a global stage, Marcal said. It made more sense, he said, to allocate to a global manager who reviewed emerging market ...

Mellon scores $250m Sunsuper mandate

... mandates over the last three months. Sunsuper, the largest superannuation fund in Queensland, will invest in Mellon Global Alpha Trust, a relative value multi-strategy product sub-advised by the San Francisco based investment team of Mellon Capital Management ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative team in Australia, together with the global ...

INGIM scores $500m in new mandates

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... consultants and clients. "We have demonstrated that INGIM's approach to fixed income portfolio management delivers both consistent alpha and disciplined risk management," he said. INGIM's fixed income manager, James Wright, said they are not disclosing ...