HEDGE FUNDS

Funds management

While investors should think about increasing their hedge fund allocations, they need to be careful to ensure the quality of their investments is maintained, according to...

Financial planning

Having already bought a couple of Australian radio stations, Macquarie Bank has more media assets in its sights, announcing today that it intends to list a new fund on th...

Funds management

Negative returns across its hedge fund investments have left listed investment vehicle Pengana Managers over $1 million in the red....

Financial planning

Assets run by employee-owned funds managers rose by 33 per cent to reach $100 billion over 2004-05, research has revealed....

Editorial

A great investor once said: “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” Of course, it’s hard to imagine that there is much that Warren Buffet doesn’t understand abou...

Financial planning

ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....

Funds management

The use of hedge funds by financial planners is growing, but slowly. In many cases, it is only planners who have reached a certain level of competence that are allowed to...

Financial planning

Hedge funds are increasingly being used by planners, with inflows stable over the past 12 months due to the strength of returns from Australian equities....

Financial planning

The hedge fund industry in Australia has to defend itself against many charges, some justified, but mostly not. In recent years, hedge funds have started to see some soli...

Financial planning

Ignoring their own rhetoric, balanced fund managers appear to relying on short-term results, writes LEEANNE BLAND....

Financial planning

Most advisers think the Australian sharemarket will continue to offer investors positive returns in 2005, but don’t think they will be as robust as they were in 2004....

Funds management

Hedge fund managers have been warned they will come under increasing scrutiny from the corporate regulator, which has expressed concern that the complexity of some funds ...

Financial planning

Van Eyk has entered a strategic research alliance with property research group Managed Investment Assessments (MIA), the last in a series of research group alliances inte...

Financial planning

Local fund managers are sure to cash in on a decision today by US-based research giant Morningstar to include Australian funds on its global research platform, the head o...

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