HEDGE FUNDS

Editorial

Market conditions are driving a renewed interest in alternative investments, but a number of practical limitations may be limiting allocations in the retail space. Bela M...

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People & Products

Fabio Ferro joins Wealth Enhancers as portfolio manager....

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Editorial

Many investors are paying active fees and ending up with index-like returns, writes Jonathan Ramsay....

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Funds management

Looking back over 20-year periods, hedge fund strategies have largely met investors’ expectations, matching and outperforming global bonds and equities, respectively....

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Funds management

The ex-director of Astarra AM has been banned for life after contributing to the collapse of Trio Capital by failing to comply with financial services law. ...

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Funds management

New data from Towers Watson has found that its clients have increased their allocation to hedge fund and private market strategies by 70 per cent since 2010, finishing th...

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Editorial

The world has recently seen a dramatic turnaround in investor sentiment and market performance, but should investors be worried about the cheery consensus? Dominic McCorm...

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Financial planning

IOSCO recommends protections for investors who are direct-sold complex financial products....

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People & Products

Elan Miller has been appointed senior portfolio manager of Pengana Capital's Australian Equities Market Neutral Fund....

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People & Products

AMP Capital has added two portfolio managers to its alternatives team....

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Funds management

ASIC has extended the interim class order relief from the short product disclosure statement (PDS) regime for multi-funds, superannuation platforms and hedge funds....

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Financial planning

GBST has been retained by Sunsuper to provide after-tax performance benchmarking services for two of the fund's Australian equities mandates....

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Editorial

What are the benefits of using a commodity trading adviser (managed futures) fund in a portfolio? What is a reasonable allocation, and where should that allocation come f...

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Funds management

Australian hedge fund managers currently manage around $208 billion in funds, trumping the absolute return hedge fund markets of Singapore and Hong Kong, according BasisP...

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Financial planning

Many financial advisers are avoiding structured products in a bid to maintain simplicity, transparency and liquidity in their clients' portfolios....

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