Colonial First State (CFS) has developed Australia’s first specialised post graduate program in hedge funds, offered in conjunction with Macquarie University as part of i...

The news of the healthy returns from US hedge fund investments continues to flow in as mutual fund managers report more lack lustre performance results....

Alternative investment group Absolute Capital plans to list three alternative investment products on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) that target the Australian and Ne...

Alternative investments have become increasingly attractive to retail investors as knowledge and awareness of the sector gains pace. While infrastructure funds have been ...

Alternative investments challenge the very core of investment theory because they open up the debate between relative and absolute returns. As FIONA MOORE reports, it is ...

SPECIALIST fund-of-hedge-fund manager Investor Select Advisors is looking to team up with an Australian funds management group in an attempt to grab a foothold in Austral...

A hedge fund offered by Australian group Basis Capital has shared the honours with a Japanese equity fund after claiming a special award at the inaugural AsiaHedge Awards...

The rise of the alternative investment sector has been going on for about the past 18 months and has been driven primarily by the threats of low return environments....

Rothschild Australia Asset Management and specialist hedge fund manager Basis have topped the rankings in the inaugural hedge fund sector report by research group Investo...

The Assirt research house has downgraded Colonial First State Investment’s Australian equities capabilities and demoted the majority of its Australian equity products ahe...

Lonsec has downgraded two of Rothschild Australia Asset Management’s funds from recommended to approved status, sighting the Westpac’s purchase of the fund manager introd...

The BT group is expected to join the growing list of major funds management groups in Australia to push headlong into the burgeoning hedge fund scene with the launch of a...

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is preparing to launch a ratings system for managed funds in a move that will bolster its already considerable push into the Australian funds mana...

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is to create a hedge fund index through its Global Index Services business, with the aim of providing a transparent benchmark of the hedge fund as...