Deutsche Bank’s ninth annual Alternative Investment Survey has found: Investors predict over US200 billion net inflows into the hedge fund industry in 2011, taking the total AUM to an all time high of US$2.2 trillion Institutional investors are increasing their allocations and the size of their hedge fund teams, which indicates significant future growth Equity [...]
Everyone is asking me about my iPad 2 and I sheepishly reply that I haven’t ordered one. I don’t think that the upgrade is significant enough to part with hard earned cash. Not long after the Australian release, I went to the Sydney Apple store to have a play around. Yes it’s lighter, yes it’s [...]
Certitude Global Investments has received a further $40 million mandate from a major (unnamed) Australian institutional investor. The mandate is in Certitude’s HFA Institutional Diversified Investments Fund (IDIF – a fund of hedge fund product) and supplements an existing mandate of $35 million from the same investor. A recent strategic review by the investor had [...]
2020 Funds Management has begun marketing its 2020 Absolute Return Fund to retail investors. The hedge fund manager was established in November 2010 by Pat Handley, Vincent Hua, JT Lam, Michael Lannon and Peter Liau. Handley is a former CFO of Westpac, Hua is a former GM of Trading in CBA’s Global Markets division, Lam [...]
I thought that I would start early, as each year I worry that we may miss managers who qualify for the various categories. Please pass the word around, particularly if I am not capturing the entire Australian and New Zealand universe of managers. If the manager is included in the table at the back of [...]
I want to cover something dear to my heart – the gadgets that I travel with! As do a lot of my colleagues in the hedge fund industry, I find myself on many a flight. Some long, and some not so long. An old colleague of mine, who shall remain nameless, (and reads this column), [...]
Australian superannuation fund (pension) assets are estimated to have reached almost US$1.3 trillion, according to Towers Watson’s 2011 survey. The local market is ranked as the fourth largest pension asset pool in the world. Details at… “Towers Watson Global Pension Asset Study 2011″ Key findings… The US remains the largest pension market with over $15 [...]
