hedge funds

Funds management

Hedge funds post best returns in nine years

All strategies post positive returns except dedicated short bias....

Editorial

Is the hedge funds party over?

For smaller retail investors, hedge funds are not necessarily a suitable choice, writes Robert Jaeger....

Funds management

Hedge fund returns higher than expected for May

Dedicated short bias significantly improves performance from April returns....

Editorial

Are cash and bonds really the safest investment options?

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....

Funds management

Managed futures suffer but other hedge funds rally

Managed futures continue to suffer consecutive negative returns after strong 2008 performance, but hedge funds expected to make positive returns in May....

Financial planning

Sherry releases equity derivatives disclosure paper

Then Minister for superannuation and Corporate Law Senator Nick Sherry has released a paper for industry consultation on the regulation and disclosure of equity derivativ...

Financial planning

The only way is up

There is likely to be renewed interest in hedge funds, particularly from institutional investors, writes OLIVER SCHUPP....

Editorial

The changing landscape of hedge funds

Should clients be comfortable making new capital allocations to hedge funds, ask SIMON FOX and DIVYESH HINDOCHA....

Financial planning

Out in the cold?

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the belief that alternative investments offered a safe haven from the tumult of the markets has been shaken, and questions are...

Financial planning

Short-selling ban finally lifted

After nearly nine months, ASIC has lifted the short-selling ban but has warned that it will reimpose it immediately if market circumstances dictate....

Funds management

Hedge fund performance picks up in April

Hedge funds continued to benefit from moderate gains on the stock market in April, with a number of strategies posting moderate returns for the month, according to the ED...

Editorial

Alternative Investments (Hedge Funds): Alpha adds up for Winton

Macquarie looked at about 300 managers for its Professional Series of investments and narrowed it down to six, including this year’s winner, Winton Global Alpha Fund....

Financial planning

Schroders soars

Schroders Investment Management named Fund Manager of the Year at the 2009 Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year Awards....

Funds management

Majority of hedge funds remain unimpaired in midst of crisis

Around 17 per cent of hedge funds had redemptions, imposed gate provisions or side-pocketed assets in the first quarter of this year....

Editorial

Have we hit bottom yet?

Everyone agrees it is difficult to market time and there’s no point in trying to pick the bottom of the market. Yet every second conversation in the markets today revolve...