HEDGE FUNDS
Funds management
All strategies post positive returns except dedicated short bias....
Editorial
For smaller retail investors, hedge funds are not necessarily a suitable choice, writes Robert Jaeger....
Funds management
Dedicated short bias significantly improves performance from April returns....
Editorial
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 continue to suffer consecutive negative returns after strong 2008 performance, but hedge funds expected to make positive returns in May....
Financial planning
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
There is likely to be renewed interest in hedge funds, particularly from institutional investors, writes OLIVER SCHUPP....
Editorial
Should clients be comfortable making new capital allocations to hedge funds, ask SIMON FOX and DIVYESH HINDOCHA....
Financial planning
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
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 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
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 Investment Management named Fund Manager of the Year at the 2009 Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year Awards....
Funds management
Around 17 per cent of hedge funds had redemptions, imposed gate provisions or side-pocketed assets in the first quarter of this year....
Editorial
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...
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...