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Telstra Super loses CIO

The chief investment officer of the $10 billion Telstra Super is understood to have resigned from the fund on Friday to take a senior position at a large Melbourne-based retail funds manager.
Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2009
Investment Strategy

Credit default swaps to clear up their act

Hedge fund managers who bemoan their image problems should spare a thought for Susan Kobayashi. The director of fixed income portfolios for Mellon Capital Management (Mellon CM) was in Australia last month promoting a fund associated with not one, but three phrases made notorious by the meltdown – ‘quantitative’, ‘market neutral’ and, most challenging of […]
Staff WriterSeptember 4, 2009
Investment Strategy

Credit default swaps to clear up their act

Hedge fund managers who bemoan their image problems should spare a thought for Susan Kobayashi. The director of fixed income portfolios for Mellon Capital Management (Mellon CM) was in Australia last month promoting a fund associated with not one, but three phrases made notorious by the meltdown – ‘quantitative’, ‘market neutral’ and, most challenging of […]
Staff WriterSeptember 4, 2009
Investment Strategy

CFS GAM shelves Property & Alternatives group

Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has pulled the plug on its Property & Alternatives Investments (PAI) group, letting go its head and creating discrete business units for property and infrastructure, in the process formalising its exit from private equity and other alternatives.
Staff WriterApril 20, 2009
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