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The average Superannuation Fund allocation to Australian Equities is 30%. To International Equities it is 25%. Total Equity asset allocation is 55%. FF use a top down macro approach to markets. FF's Portfolio Managers PMs implement the macro strategy by allocating to managers in those asset classes or by direct asset exposures.
The average Superannuation Fund allocation to Australian Equities is 30%. To International Equities it is 25%. Total Equity asset allocation is 55%. FF use a top down macro approach to markets. FF's Portfolio Managers PMs implement the macro strategy by allocating to managers in those asset classes or by direct asset exposures.
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Superannuation: Equity Asset Allocation at 55%! ! With the Dow Jones up 400 down 500, up down, and the Australian market continuing its overpriced A$ related decline, what do Superannuates do? Year to date Australian Equities are -13%. The US S&P is -11%. Europe is a disaster. FTSE -15%, CAC -21%, DAX -21%. At some stage most these markets were positive on the year.
The average Superannuation Fund allocation to Australian Equities is 30%. To International Equities it is 25%. Total Equity asset allocation is 55%. So in general, portfolios have been subjected to August 2011s massive volatility. This is just totally and utterly wrong!
Lucky that 2011 performance is measured to June 30 and it doesnt include the recent volatility.
Asset allocation must be tactical. Default Strategic Asset Allocation, just doesnt work. I have previously mentioned Future Funds total equity allocation as ranging from 28% up to 38%. Domestic and International. I recently met with the Future Fund and we discussed equity exposure. As at a couple of weeks ago it was around 30% which included Domestic and International Shares. How did they get to an asset allocation which is nearly half of the standard Superfund? FF use a top down macro approach to markets. FFs Portfolio Managers PMs, implement the macro strategy by allocating to managers in those asset classes or by direct asset exposures. A strategy group or committee look at market inputs and they a call. These inputs are probably closely discussed with the PMs and then the asset class allocation is implemented. FF could correct me if I am wrong but I am fairly sure that this is their approach.
Just think about it? There are enough market metrics and inputs that will give you a top down approach to investing over the short, medium and long terms. Years ago I worked as a floor trader on the Sydney Futures Exchange. Most of us never held ourselves out to be top quartile analysts but we were very close to market movements and psychology. Fear and greed moving markets. Patterns repeat, over and over. One of the simplest momentum indicators was the Weighted Moving Average Crossover. One market guru who seemed to have an uncanny knack of picking markets simply used a 30 day and 90 day Moving Average Crossover to tell him whether markets were trending up or down. We used other well known technical indicators such as the 14 day Relative Strength Index which gave you an idea of whether markets were overbought or oversold. You cant tell me that you couldnt run some set of quantitative factors which assisted a Superfund manager in down weighting exposures to various asset classes, in particular equities. Infact, any asset class could be monitored as to whether is was at the top end or bottom end of relative risk value.
Recently, Challenger have been running TV ads describing their annuity products which are not affected by equity market downturns. The ads are very specific in targeting retirees who have been affected by the Global Financial Crisis. Challenger is right on the money here. Investors will not accept significant risk asset downdrafts affecting their planned retirement. Mark Bouris, the very high profile Chairman of Yellow Brick Road recently wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph highlighting the recent equity market volatility and the need for retirees to diversify into assets specifically Fixed Income and Credit. This is the same as the Challenger message and it will steadily gather momentum. Superannuation Funds will be questioned on return and volatility related to equity exposure. Maybe the horse has bolted and with equity markets down as much as what they are, now may be not the time to sell. Having said that, I think equity markets will be in a down to sideways market for some time. Fixed Interest, Corporate Credit, Cash Term Deposits, Gold, and Short USD positions must be considered in Superfund portfolios. Or an increased allocation to these assets. I understand that only 2% of global gold holdings are attributed to Pension Funds. Rainmaker reports that in 1997 Fixed Interest and AUSTRALIAN HEDGE Monday, August 22, 2011
! TRIPLE A PARTNERS AUSTRALIA 2! Cash made up 39% of Superfund asset allocation. That amount has dropped to the current 34%. This amount was a bump from the down trend because of the GFC. The projected asset allocation is to fall to 26%. Considering where our cash rates are, that is appalling! This 55% asset allocation to Equities will come under scrutiny and Trustee Boards will be held to account. I am not sure that I would want to be a Superfund Trustee. In the years to come, I can see some very unhappy members phoning Trustees complaining about their retirement nest eggs. When the results from MySuper start to be reported, this unhappy state of mind will only gather momentum.
NEWS
Global fund of hedge funds seeking managers
SAIL Advisors (HK) and Parker Global Strategies have both announced plans to launch further fund of hedge funds vehicles this year, according to the latest Preqin global hedge fund spotlight edition.
Other key findings; Princeton Futures, Casteel Capital, Clariden Leu (500 million) and Blue Rock Advisors (US$970 million) are adding funds to their existing fund of funds vehicles. Nearly one-third of institutional investors plan to make a commitment to the hedge fund asset class in the coming 12 months, investing up to a combined US$195 billion. Of these investors, 47% are seeking opportunities to invest in funds of hedge funds. Over half of funds of hedge funds are seeking new investments themselves. 50% of those institutions with investment plans are looking to commit to North America-based managers. Europe-based investors have the greatest appetite for new commitments; 45% are seeking new opportunities, compared to 29% of North American, and 32% of Asia and Rest of World-based investors. 87% of those planning to invest include long/short equity as a strategic preference, and 58% are taking an opportunistic approach. Emerging managers have grown in popularity, with 28% of all investors stating that they are more open to marketing from emerging managers than they were one year ago. 60% of investors will focus on managers with a track record of at least three years. Just over one-third will consider vehicles with less than $100 million in assets under management.
HSBC Global Investments has commenced marketing its HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL) to Australian institutional clients. Marketing is being undertaken by Christopher Smith, HAILs Regional Product Head, and Chris Comino, Associate Director, Client & Consultant Relationships for HSBC Global Investments in Australia.
HAIL is a US$28 billion hedge fund advisory business within the global HSBC Group. The firm annually conducts on-site due diligence at more than 800 hedge funds, and recommends around 200 of them.
Customised portfolios account for 86 per cent of HAILs AUM. The firm says it is seeing increasing demand from institutional investors for direct investing, portfolio construction and manager selection support.
UBS eyes alternatives expansion in Australia
UBSs new Asian fund administration platform is eyeing opportunities in Australia, according to AsianInvestor citing Colin Lunn, the units Hong Kong based business development head.
The investment bank recently acquired INGs $34 billion Australian investment unit which will provide scope for UBS to offer fund administration services. The firms admin business is initially focussing on hedge funds and other alternatives in Asia.
Meanwhile, Ben Heap, head of UBS Global Asset Management Australia, plans to build up its range of alternative investment products, according to I&T News. The products will include funds-of-funds, UBSs own hedge funds, property and infrastructure funds.
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Australia rises is HNW world rankings
Capgemini and Merrill Lynch have released their annual World Wealth Report, which covers the global high-net-worth industry.
Key findings; 1. Australian HNWIs increased by 11.1 per cent to 193,000. The nation gained one place in the rankings to become the ninth largest population of HNWIs, overtaking Italy in 2010. Australia also has the third largest HNWI population in the Asia-Pacific after Japan and China. 2. HNWI allocations to alternative investments changed little in 2010, remaining at around 5 per cent of total HNWI asset investments. Within this category, allocations to hedge funds dipped to 24 per cent from 27 per cent in the previous year, while commodity investments rose to 22 per cent from 16 per cent. 3. Allocations to equity was 33 per cent; fixed income (29 per cent); real estate (19 percent); and cash (14 per cent). 4. The Asia-Pacific now ranks as the worlds second largest region for HNWI, exceeding Europe for the first time. (below)
Number of HNW - million Assets of HNW - US$ trillion North America 3.4 11.6 Asia Pacific 3.3 10.8 Europe 3.1 10.2
HFA sees AUM rise, Certitude sews up Threadneedle
HFA Group had assets under management and advice of US$5.8 billion in June 2011, a 22 per cent rise from the prior year.
The rise was due substantially to its wholly-owned US subsidiary, Lighthouse Investment Partners LLC, which has received significant mandates in recent months. These include US$500 million from a US pension, US$40 million from an Australian pension fund, US$20-25 million from a US hospital district and US$20 million from a non-US retirement fund.
Meanwhile, HFAs subsidiary, Certitude Global Investments, has entered into an exclusive distribution partnership with international asset manager Threadneedle to sell its products to retail and high net worth investors in Australia. Threadneedle is an international investment manager with more than $110 billion in AUM.
Professionally managed assets at record $56.4 trillion
The global value of professionally managed assets rose 8 per cent to an all-time high of US$56.4 trillion in end 2010, surpassing its previous record of $56.2 trillion in 2007, according to Boston Consulting Groups Global Asset Management Report.
Other highlights; Retail AUM reached $22.8 trillion (up 9 per cent from end 2009) while institutional AUM was $33.6 trillion, (up 7 per cent). Retail growth was driven by gains in discretionary mandates for high-net-worth individuals as well as in unit-linked insurance and pension products. Institutional growth was supported by the pension and insurance sectors and also by government funds.
Details (32 pages) at http://www.bcg.com/documents/file81068.pdf
State Street has released its latest VisionFocus Hedge Funds: Rebuilding on a New Foundation report.
Highlights; The expansion of hedge fund industry assets represents the endorsement by institutional investors of a more transparent and rational hedge fund industry. Hedge funds have evolved beyond their traditional markets among high-net-worth investors, foundations, endowments and the largest pension funds, to the mid-sized pension funds that make up the vast centre of the asset management marketplace. As pension assets shift from traditional asset management firms to hedge funds, many industry analysts anticipate convergence between both types of fund AUSTRALIAN HEDGE Monday, August 22, 2011
! TRIPLE A PARTNERS AUSTRALIA 4! management. But thus far, convergence has primarily been evident in the distribution of investment products.
Bennelong Funds Management is establishing a new Australian equity long/short absolute return boutique fund with Mark Burgess and Kristiaan Rehder. The pair will join the firm on 1 Sept. They were previously running the Herschel Absolute Return fund for Herschel Asset Management.
* Melbourne-based Imperia Investment Group attracted inflows of $50 million earlier in July, including a sizeable allocation from a major global investor, according to AsianInvestor.
The Asian equities event-driven hedge fund, headed by ex-Citadel executive Simon Leversha, now manages $65 million. The firm reportedly counts US investors, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and Japan and Asian institutions amongst its investors.
* Morningstar has released its latest sector wrap on alternative investment strategies. Twelve individual investment strategies were assessed. Five were awarded a recommended rating, while seven received an investment grade rating.
The five recommended were AQR Delta, Aspect Diversified Futures, Blackrock Scientific Diversified Markets, Fauchier Partners Absolute Return, and Winton Global Alpha.
* Taurus Funds Management is launching the Taurus Enhanced Gold and Precious Metals Fund, targeted at Australian institutional and retail investors. It will be the firms first move into the retail market. Equity Trustees is the fund's responsible entity (RE).
An institutional investor has seeded the fund with $230 million, according to InvestorDaily. Taurus has nearly $1 billion AUM and specialises in long- only and hedge fund strategies in physical precious metals and resources, and related stocks.
* Five Oceans Asset Management has gained a $150 million global equities mandate from the $6 billion NSW-based Local Government Super (LGS). The mandate will be managed by CIO Chris Selth and Kim Tracey, portfolio manager of Five Oceans 130:30 global equities fund, according to I&T News.
Five Oceans has $500 million AUM, which was boosted by Catholic Supers $80 million allocation to its World Fund earlier this year. The firm is part of Challengers boutique manager stable.
* New Yorkbased Artio Global Investors has opened a Sydney office, appointing Ian Webber as Director, Institutional Investments for Australia & NZ. Webber was previously CoHead of Australia/Head of Sales and Marketing for AXA Rosenberg Investment Management.
Artios initial focus in Australia will be on its Global Equity strategy, which the firm has managed since 1995, and its Global High Yield offering, which it has been running since 2003. Artio manages US$45.2 billion across a range of equity and fixed income strategies. Sydney will be the firms third nonUS office, after Toronto and London.
* Australias John Hempton, (44) founder of Bronte Capital, was recently featured in a Reuters expose about a small global group of short sellers in Chinese stocks. In the past nine months, this disparate group has separately published research exposing accounting fraud at a number of Chinese companies listed in the United States and Canada, resulting in sharp declines in the stock prices of the entire sub-sector, and handsome profits for the short sellers.
Hempton is reported to have "semi-retired" at the age of 39, after making a fortune on the flotation of Platinum Asset Management, where he was an executive. He now manages private money with a business partner, Simon Maher, at Bronte Capital.
Details at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us- china-accounting-shorts- idUSTRE7740PC20110805
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People on the move
Certitude Global Investments has appointed Gary Burke to the newly-created position of Head of Investments. Burke was most recently the Head of Mercers investment management business in Australia and NZ. Certitude is part of ASX-listed HFA Holdings, a fund of hedge funds firm. Its investment partners are Threadneedle Asset Management, Marshall Wace GaveKal, and Lighthouse Investments Partners, the latter being also owned by HFA.
* Amanda Gillespie has been promoted to research general manager at Lonsec. She replaces Grant Kennaway has left the firm to take an extended break. Lukasz de Pourbaix will assume responsibility for Lonsec's investment consulting team. Lonsec was recently sold to Financial Research Holdings. (see Australian Hedge, June 2011).
Industry developments
European and UK fund managers at the 2011 Fund Forum International in Monaco have expressed interest in entering the Australian retail market, according to InvestorDaily citing feedback from an Australian delegation to the event.
An Australian panel presented to around 100 delegates at the forum. Questions were reportedly asked on how the Australian retail market was changing, the possible impact of Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, and opportunities to by-pass planners to go direct to retail investors.
* nabInvest has acquired a non-controlling interest in Altrinsic Global Advisors, a global equities high conviction fund manager based in Connecticut, USA. About 25 per cent of Altrinsic's US$12 billion in AUM comes from Australian institutional investors, according to InvestorDaily.
Garry Mulcahy, CEO nabInvest, said the acquisition is nabInvests first investment in a global equities manager. nabInvest is National Australia Banks direct asset management business, which through its in-house management teams and 11 external partners, manages approximately $45 billion.
* AsiaHedges New Funds Survey reported 24 new hedge funds being launched in Asia during the first six months of 2011. The funds raised a combined US$2.86 billion in new assets, nearly triple that of last year. However, a major factor in the AUM rise was the launch of a $1 billion Hong Kong based hedge fund by Azentus Capital, founded by high profile ex-Goldman Sachs proprietary trading head Morgan Sze.
* The global hedge funds industry hit a record $2.044 trillion in AUM in June 2011, according to Hedge Fund Research. For the six months ended June 30, net inflows to hedge funds totalled $62 billion, the highest half-year inflows since $75 billion was raised in the second half of 2007. Details at http://www.pionline.com/article/20110719/DAILYRE G/110719896#ixzz1TAdmwSDg
Investor developments
MilitarySuper is reportedly in a legal stoush with Melbourne-based hedge fund manager Agora Asset Management over a $7.88 million exit fee. The superfund has more than $152 million invested in the Agora Absolute Return Fund II and sought to redeem the investment in May 2011 after it had become "dissatisfied" with the fund's performance, according to InvestorDaily citing court documents.
However, MilitarySuper tried to cancel its redemption request after it was told it would need to pay a 5 per cent exit fee, but Agora reportedly denied this request. The superfund, which claimed the extent of the exit fee had not been made sufficiently clear, is the major investor in the fund, according to InvestorDaily.
* The $36 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is believed to have appointed Aksia, a New York-headquartered hedge fund research and advisory firm, to consult on its hedge fund investments, according to I&T News. Both firms declined to comment to I&T but a spokesperson did say that VFMC invested in absolute return funds within its non-traditional assets asset class, which accounted for 5.5 per cent of its AUM.
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! TRIPLE A PARTNERS AUSTRALIA 6! Aksia already consults to Sunsupers alternatives specialist, Bruce Tomlinson, in the management of the $17 billion funds global hedge fund program, according to I&T.
* Axa has added 25 new managed funds to its investment platform, AXA North. Of these, three are non-infrastructure alternatives including; Aurora Corals Commodities Fund, MAN AHL Alpha Fund, and Platinum International Brands Fund (which can short). AXA North administers $1.7 billion on behalf of 15,000 investors.
* Japanese and Korean pension funds are expected to allocate to Australian alternatives, according to InvestorDaily citing AMP Capital Investors Hong Kong based international chief executive Anthony Fasso.
Fasso expects investor interest in infrastructure (assets and debt), unlisted real estate and uncorrelated longer dated assets, including forestry investments. Asian pension funds also see Australia as a relatively safe way to get exposure to growth in China. Their allocations to alternatives are expected to grow to four to five per cent from one per cent currently, said Fasso.
* Dixon Advisory has appointed US based Passport Capital as an underlying manager to its ASX-listed fund of fund, the Global Resource Masters Fund, according to InvestorDaily. The $100 million Dixon fund has two-thirds of AUM allocated to equities, and one-third invested in physical commodities. The Taurus Precious Metals Fund has a 2.8 per cent allocation.
* Institutional investors are in danger of allocating too much to alternatives, according to independent investment consultant Chris Condon. Condon, (ex- CIO MLC) was speaking at the annual Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Symposium. He sees alternatives as a sound investment as long as they are "genuinely alternative and can be bought in a competitive way," according to Financial Standard.
However, he warned that a groundswell of attractiveness for alternatives can enable providers to package up products to convince investors that they are buying alternatives when in fact investors could have bought in more cheaply, efficiently and with more transparency.
A recent survey by Towers Watson/Financial Times found that allocations to alternative assets accounted for 19% of global pension fund assets in 2010, up from 5% in 1995. (see Australian Hedge, June 2011).
* The China Investment Corporation (CIC) boosted its allocation to alternatives to 21 per cent of AUM in 2010 from 6 per cent the previous year, according to AsianInvestor citing data from CICs annual report.
However, most of this is going to private equity, real estate/REITs, infrastructure and direct investment, particularly in the resources and utilities industries. CIC is Chinas US$410 billion sovereign wealth fund, with $135 billion in its international investment portfolio.
Hatfields Gadget Corner: Mac OS X Lion is a DOG!
I am normally an eager upgrader sometimes to my detriment. So when Mac OS Lion was released I eagerly upgraded. In all my years of eagerly awaiting a new OS, this is the first time that I am very unhappy. I strongly recommend that readers do not upgrade and stick with Snow Leopard!
There has been an eerie quiet about this operating system. I think the reason is that commentators are scared to voice negative opinions. On the Opinions Page of Cult of Mac, a blogger wrote an article entitled OS X Lion turned me into a ranting bitch!.
The Apple acolytes were quick to jump to the defense of OS X Lion. I read the article and thought blogger made very good points.
My issues are as follows:
1. The new Mail program crashes regularly. 2. I use an outsourced Exchange Server and although Mail 5 is Exchange compatible, I have certain days where AUSTRALIAN HEDGE Monday, August 22, 2011
! TRIPLE A PARTNERS AUSTRALIA 7! the sub folders just dont appear. And it varies from Mac to Mac. 3. MobileMe email regularly fails to send. I have found this on multiple Macs. It brings up the Account Box after a failed send. This is really bizarre. 4. The Mail search is a disaster. I spend hours trying to find old emails that I need to follow up. 5. Enough on Mail, I have had to go over to the dark side and use MS Outlook for Mac. It works! 6. Preview, what is this disaster? I get a lot of PDF documents. You open the document in Preview and when you go to save it, you get the choice of UNLOCK or DUPLICATE. I just want to save the PDF on the Server!!!!! Just like MS Outlook I have had to download Adobe Reader another Dark Side software. 7. Safari crashes regularly. 8. Safari leaves open all your viewed windows and then reopens all of them when you reboot. 9. I always do rebuild OS from scratch once or twice a year. This gets rid of derelict files and cluttered stuff. A general spring clean. I did this with Lion and when I went to copy my MobileMe website domain, I could not find the Library sub directory. As it turns out, I had ask my Techo how to find it. It turn out that Apple have hidden this sub directory. This is quite bizarre. Why would they do this? 10. When I do a clean install, I sync everything up to MobileMe, Contacts, Safari Settings, Calendar and some Mail Settings. My Contacts all disappeared. I got them back but it was after cutting and pasting the old file from an old Library backup. 11. The Finder Window looks like some sort of bad programming. It doesnt show the old disc usage, which I found important. 12. This scrolling business is giving me RSI. I hate it. 13. Processor overload. My 13 inch MacBook goes into Processor Overload on a daily basis. I have seen this before and Apple always bring out an update to fix this. But when? My MacBook is only a few months old and I find it quite disconcerting to hear the processor overload.
So the first Update 10.7.1 has been released but it seems just a small bug fix at 80 MBs.
Sorry Mr. Jobs but this Lion upgrade is a shocker!!!!!!!
David Chin is the consulting editor for the Australian Hedge newsletter. He is also the managing director of Basis Point Consulting, a research and news syndication firm focused on the Australian and Asia-Pacific hedge funds, financial markets, and derivatives industries.
Contact contact@davidkochin.com
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