Risk aversion is a source of alpha

by | Feb 26, 2015 | news

First Degree founder and chief investment officer Stephen Fisher runs a fixed income global macro fund and so naturally has been anxiously trying to figure out how Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to hold a snap election affects security prices, right? 18...

AFM signs up global equities manager

by | Oct 16, 2014 | news

Institutional investment advisory firm AFM Investment Partners has signed up United States-based global equities manager Ranger International and will help to distribute the firm’s income-focused equity strategy in Australia. By Wouter Klijn –...

Bringing Indonesian pensions to Australia

by | Oct 5, 2014 | news

After the first-ever delegation to Australia by the Indonesian Pension Fund Association, the organizer of the trip, John Donovan, said he hoped some of the big Indonesian funds would become co-investors in the region alongside Australian funds. Donovan, the managing...

A sleeping economic giant on Australia’s doorstep

by | Oct 5, 2014 | news

Indonesia’s economic and geopolitical clout is on the rise. After the fall of long-ruling autocrat Suharto in 1998 and the devastation of the Asian Economic Crisis that same year, the country has since emerged as the world’s third-largest democracy and...