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Fund managers fail to make the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... other researchers Aegis Equities Research and VanMac - all of whom issued reports mentioning the disgraced Absolute Alpha Fund, none of them negative.

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... research houses." Research firms Aegis Equities Research, van Eyk and VanMac all issued reports mentioning the Absolute Alpha Fund, the former name of Astarra Strategic, none of them negative. In April 2007 a van Eyk Strategic Research Unit consultant ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... BNY Mellon Global Alpha Trust, GMO Systematic Global Macro Trust and Macquarie Professional Series - Winton Global Alpha Fund in its alternatives portfolio. UCSuper is the Uniting Church in Australia's own corporate superannuation fund established in ...

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... alternatives market is also in focus for BlackRock in 2011 with plans to further its two strategies Asset Allocation Alpha Fund and the Scientific Global Markets Fund, which have proven popular with the IFA market and the bigger financial planning institutions. ...

Basis Yield lawsuit continues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master) (BYAFM) released a statement responding to the Goldman Sachs motion to dismiss BYAFM's security fraud suit that is currently pending in federal court in New York. Goldman Sachs has now argued that the case is a foreign ...

Brakes on new hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... including the BlackRock Scientific Global Markets fund, Aspect Diversified Futures fund, Man AHL Alpha and Winton Global Alpha fund. The AQR Delta fund was added to the 'recommended' list. "The distribution of ratings in the 2010 review has a distinct ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... Clay Carter, head of international equities at Perennial Investment Partners, said the Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund has shareholdings in US-based businesses Cooper Cameron and FMC Technologies. This follows the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig ...

Alpha Fund Managers signs Amundi

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
Alpha Fund Managers has added Amundi VaR8 Absolute Return Strategy to its multi-manager lineup. Richard Borysiewicz, chief executive at Amundi Asset Management Australia, said the VaR8 strategy was launched in 2007 and has more than $60 million in funds ...

AMP Cap add resources as fund placed 'on hold'

PRESS RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... (ESG) capability after Nick Edgerton, former ESG researcher, left the firm. S&P placed the AMP Capital Sustainable Alpha fund 'on hold' and said it would stay on hold until the ratings firm can meet with the manager when a new ESG researcher is appointed. ...

Fairview joins Alpha managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Boutique firm Alpha Fund Managers has added the Fairview Equity Partners Emerging Companies strategy to its Alpha series multi-manager line-up. "The Fairview Equity Partners Emerging Companies strategy provides investors with an actively managed and ...