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Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:

Australian hedge funds do not currently pose a systemic risk to the local financial system, an ASIC report claimed and added that the country’s hedge fund industry manages only a small share of Australia’s $2.1tln managed funds industry with more than half of these holding less than $50m each.

In its survey of Australian hedge funds, it found that the local fund management space uses low leverage and appeared to have adequate liquidity to meet obligations.

In a speech by Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Commissioner Greg Tanzer during the AIMA Australia Hedge Fund Forum today, he said that there are no Australian examples of hedge funds causing systemic risk, but there are overseas.

"The collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998, where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had to orchestrate a bail - in by its investment bank counterparties is the most famous," Tanzer said. "This is an example of a hedge fund raising systemic risk through the channel of credit risk. Ten years later, Morgan Stanley faced the......................

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