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Australia Roundtable Highlights Opportunities In Dramatically Growing Markets: Super Funds, Mezzanine, Retail

Sydney, March 26th 2010: Opalesque, the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has launched the 28th issue in a series of regional roundtable forums, the “Opalesque 2010 Australia Roundtable”.  The 27 page Roundtable can be downloaded for free at http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableAUS2010.html

Australia: One of the Fastest Growing Asset Pools Worldwide

With 9% of every person’s salary in Australia getting invested into a registered superannuation (pension) fund, the country has created one of the fastest growing asset pools worldwide. With A$1.2 trillion (US$1,1 trillion), the Aussie pension fund industry  is now the world’s fifth largest and continues to grow dramatically.

Australia has very mature wholesale and retail markets, which both offer unique opportunities for local and global hedge funds.  But: Be aware of the rules and set-up of those markets.  Beyond wholesale and retail, this Roundtable also explains how to access a third rapidly growing asset pool, the so-called mezzanine market which is managed by the local dealer groups.

Self-Managed Super Funds Control over One Third of all Superannuation Assets

One of the most stunning aspects of the Australian pension fund industry has been the ascent of the Self-Managed Super Funds, where the individual is managing his pension assets himself as a self-directed investor. At the smaller end, a Self-Managed Super Funds may have only $250,000 in assets, through to many millions at the high end. Within just five years, over one third of all superannuation assets have been moved into the 400,000 self-managed super funds.

The domestic Australian hedge fund industry has traditionally been a strong performer and was also able to protect the downside in the crisis of 2008, where the average Australian hedge fund lost 17.74% against the ASX which fell over 40%. At the same time, the global industry fell somewhere between 17% and 21%. In addition, 25% of the 200 plus managers in the Australian Fund Monitors database produced positive returns, and over 90% of them outperformed the ASX200.

In this Roundtable, leading Australian hedge funds what opportunities they see for their funds and strategies going forward, Superannuation Funds explain how they select their hedge funds, and what at the moment excites seeders who work exclusively with Australian funds.

The 2010 Opalesque Australia Roundtable was sponsored by Australian Fund Monitors and the Opalesque 2010 Roundtable Series sponsors Custom House Group and Taussig Capital.  The following experts participated:

Bruce Tomlinson, Portfolio Manager, Sunsuper Superannuation Fund

Adrian Redlich, Chief Investment Officer, Merricks Capital

Chris Gosselin, Founder, Australian Fund Monitors

Dominic McCormick, Chief Investment Officer, Select Asset Management

John Corr, Founder, Fortitude Capital

Larry Simon, Co-Founder, Lazorne Group

Nelson Lam, Head of Investments, Ascalon Capital Managers

Matthias Knab, founder of Opalesque and internationally recognized expert on hedge funds and alternatives, moderates the Opalesque Roundtables.

The Roundable can be downloaded for free at http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableAUS2010.html

All other previously published Opalesque Roundtable Scripts can be accessed here:

http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=archiveRT

About Opalesque:

In 2003, with the publication of its daily Alternative Market Briefing, Opalesque successfully launched an information revolution in the hedge fund media space: “Opalesque changed the world by bringing transparency where there was opacity and by delivering an accurate professional reporting service.” – Nigel Blanchard, Culross. This hybrid financial news service, which combines proprietary industry news stories and filtered third party reports, has been credited by many industry insiders with delivering precise, accurate, and vital information to a notoriously guarded audience.

Each week, Opalesque sends out over 650,000 editions of its eleven publications to a global readership in over 170 countries. Opalesque is the only daily hedge fund publisher which is actually read by the elite managers themselves (http://www.opalesque.com/op_testimonials.html).

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