NEWS
November absolute return and hedge fund review
Australian Fund Monitors has just released the November Absolute Return and Hedge Fund Review. Results for October were generally flat, but this still represents outperformance of around 2% when compared with equity markets.
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November absolute return and hedge fund reviewPerformance Report: BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund (Class D)
Blackrock's Asset Allocation Fund gained 0.51% in October and is up 10.6% over the last 12 months. The manager says that major contributors to performance have been the Equity/Equity Strategy
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Performance Report: AUI Wingate Global Equity Income Fund
The Wingate Global Equity Income Fund saw a small loss of 1.15% in October and over the last year remains down 2.18%. However this is significantly better than the fund's benchmark
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Performance Report: Apostle Loomis Sayles Credit Opportunities Fund
Apostle's Loomis Sayles Credit Opportunities Fund was up 1.07% for the month, bringing their return for the year to 28.25%, although looking at the last two years the fund is still down 3.69%.
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Performance Report: Prodigal Absolute Cayman Fund
Prodigal's Absolute Cayman Fund had another strong performance in October, up 3.87%, continuing a trend that has seen the fund gain almost 60% since the start of this year.
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Performance Report: Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust
Fortitude's onshore fund continues to produce positive returns as equity markets falter.
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Performance Report: Herschel Absolute Return Fund
Herschel's Absolute return fund has reported a gain of 1.2% for October, largley due to investments in Galaxy Resources, Share Price Index Futures, Ten Network and Virgin Blue.
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Performance Report: CSL Active Long/Short Programme
Commodity Strategies reported an estimated return of 4.90% for their long/short fund in October with energies, and to a lesser extent metals, contributing significantly to the strong result.
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Performance Report: Apeiron Global Macro Fund - Class A
Apeiron reported a positive return for October, but is not convinced that the Federal Reserve can continue providing US banks with unlimited cheap credit forever.
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Performance Report: Bennelong Securities Long Short Equity Fund
Bennelong's Long Short Equity Fund reported strong growth of 2.65% for the month, although the manager says that this was achieved with modest turnover and most activity for the fund consisted of closing mature positions.
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