{"id":7264,"date":"2008-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"intech-australian-asset-advisers-boost-hedge-fund-allocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/intech-australian-asset-advisers-boost-hedge-fund-allocations.html","title":{"rendered":"Intech, Australian Asset Advisers Boost Hedge Fund Allocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Intech Investment Consultants, Ipac&nbsp;and Van Eyk, three of Australia&#8217;s biggest asset advisers, are recommending clients invest in &#8220;alternative&#8221; assets such as hedge funds to take advantage of volatile markets. <\/p>\n<p>Intech, Ipac and Van Eyk, which together advise on about A$90 billion ($84 billion) of Australian assets, increased their weightings in hedge funds to as much as 20 percent this year from as little as zero in 2007, executives said in separate interviews yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The end of a five-year bull market in equities puts hedge funds in a better position to generate returns through strategies such as selling stocks short, the three firms say. Australia&#8217;s benchmark index is on track for its worst quarterly performance since at least 1992, having dropped 15 percent this year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601213&#038;sid=aXvJZfN2XKa4&#038;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Intech Investment Consultants, Ipac&nbsp;and Van Eyk, three of Australia&#8217;s biggest asset advisers, are recommending clients invest in &#8220;alternative&#8221; assets such as hedge funds to take advantage of volatile markets. Intech, Ipac and Van Eyk, which together advise on about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}