Announcing Australia’s First Comprehensive Hedge Fund And Boutique Fund Directory

The inaugural Triple A Partners / Basis Point Consulting Australian Hedge Fund and Boutique Fund Directory (2012 edition) has been launched.

Highlights

1. The directory is the first comprehensive report on Australia’s hedge and boutique fund industry.
2. 165 firms control $208.4 billion, equivalent to 17% of the $1.19 trillion managed by all investment managers in Australia.
3. The directory identifies 102 independently owned boutiques (predominantly long-only, benchmark-unaware strategies) with $165.6 billion in AUM, and 63 hedge fund firms with $42.8 billion in AUM.
4. They eclipse Hong Kong’s A$37 billion in hedge fund and long-only absolute return assets, and Singapore’s A$20 billion sector.
5. More than $60 billion (roughly 30% of sector AUM) is deployed by Australian managers into global markets such as global and Asian equities, global fixed income and global macro.

The 56-page (hard-copy only) directory has 28 pages profiling each of the 165 managers.   There are also details on 42 service providers (brokers, fund admin, operational, software/data/IT, business services) and global managers marketing into Australia.  In addition, there are 17 pages of qualitative and quantitative analysis on Australian investors including super funds, (world’s fifth largest pension fund) and high-net-worth investors.

The directory is sponsored by:

Gold: Merrill Lynch, NYSE Liffe

Silver: Moore Stephens, Singapore Exchange, TMF Fund Services

Bronze: EUREX, Predicted Markets, UBS Fund Services.

$70,000 worth of the directory is available free to qualified Australian institutional super fund and family office investors on a “first come first served” basis.   For others, the cost is A$396 (US$410).

To order your copy or for more information, please email ‘info “at” basispoint.com.au’

Sample copies will be available from the Australian Trade Commission’s global offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Shanghai, Dubai and Tokyo (from October).

Basis Point Consulting (established 1996) provides market intelligence on the Australian and Asian funds industry and financial markets.  Clients include government entities in the Asia Pacific, and exchanges & exchange groups in Europe and the US.

David Chin, founder and managing director of Basis Point Consulting, is the author of the Australian Trade Commission’s Investment Management Industry in Australia Report; and the Australian Hedge Funds Industry Report.

Notes: To be included in this directory, firms must have investment teams located in Australia.  The directory excludes specialist private equity, real estate, and infrastructure investment managers and fund of funds. It also excludes investment management firms owned by institutions except where they deploy hedge fund strategies from Australia.