In The News - Sydney Morning Herald - Caution grows over Kiwi/Aussie strength

Hedge funds and currency strategists are growing increasingly cautious over the New Zealand dollar's strength against the Australian dollar…Ian Gunner, manager at Altana Hard Currency Fund, said the fact that Friday's fall in the Australian dollar-New Zealand dollar rate was followed by a move higher, forming a so-called candle stick on the chart, supported this view.

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In The News - The Hedge Fund Journal - Altana Augments Strategy Range

Spin-outs of star managers from established hedge funds have to be doing something different to pique our interest sufficiently to warrant a feature. Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth cut the mustard back in September 2011, when we last profiled the group, and his team’s world views today remain as refreshingly straight-talking as ever.

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White Paper - Skilled monkey or unlucky manager?

When The Wall Street Journal used a monkey to choose stocks to invest in, it failed to launch a more comprehensive experiment based on the same principle. Using a probabilistic approach in a similar way to Roy’s safety-first risk measure, we consider the probability that a randomly managed portfolio will outperform a predetermined benchmark…

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