{"id":417551,"date":"2026-02-10T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417551\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:55:17","slug":"the-striving-of-federation-asset-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417551\/","title":{"rendered":"The striving of Federation Asset Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federation Asset Management \u2013 the investment house of ex-Macquarie fast talker Cameron Brownjohn \u2013 has been the subject of much unwanted press attention in recent weeks after a catastrophic risk management failure led to swingeing losses for the clients of both its retail funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those who missed this, Federation’s Alternative Investments II fund sank<\/a> a positively idiotic 65 per cent of its total assets into Aussie logistics business Sendle, which is now being liquidated after a failed merger. Federation’s first alternatives fund was also invested in Sendle, though not to the same kamikaze extent. Redemptions from the second fund have been gated since November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’d never heard of Federation until nearly 12 months ago, when someone sent me the incredibly ropey claims of investment performance featured on its website. I didn’t bother writing anything about it because I doubted my readers would particularly care about such a two-bit shop. Now I wish I had.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Federation trumpets that its “team members have achieved an annualised return of 22.7 per cent on over $4 billion of realised investments since 2011, akin to trebling investors’ capital every five years”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There is a great deal defective about this claim, not the least of which is that Federation was only established in 2018. For those mystified \u2013 as I was \u2013 by the impossibility of this feat, the Wayback Machine helpfully contains the answers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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