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BlackRock scoops record $1.1bn quant mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
BlackRock has won a $1.1 billion Australian equities mandate from Mercer Global Investments. It is the largest quantitative mandate Blackrock has received and is worth a third of their existing $3.5 billion in assets under management. Ken Liow, head ...

GMO small caps downgraded by Morningstar

... research Anthony Corr. "They're a big loss to the firm, and while GMO has sizeable resources, alongside a robust quantitative approach, we no longer consider this small-cap Australian equities offering as compelling as it once was," noted Morningstar ...

Suncorp and Tyndall outline team restructure

... take up this role. Simon and his Brisbane-based team will be responsible for building on our current expertise in quantitative investment techniques and growing our support in this expanding sector," said Himbury. Craig Hobart will be the head of retail ...

Advance Asset addresses Boston Co staff departures

... overseeing Advance Asset Management's international shares funds. He added that because these staff members were part of a quantitative analysis-driven team, the funds' performance returns won't be affected the way they would be if the funds were based ...

WRF taps demand for alternatives

... responsible for the asset allocation strategy and the analysis of major global equity, bond, property and currency markets, quantitative portfolio optimisation methods. He was also responsible for the group's Global Tactical Asset Allocation derivative ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... fund, which adopts a value-style, took second place with a 34.09 percent. [But] Dimensional Australian Value Trust, a quantitative based strategy with over 200 stocks in the portfolio and a mid-cap bias, also performed well. It returned 33.41 percent ...

Scientific investing wins big

The number of institutional investors embracing quantitative fund products has jumped in recent years with quant manager Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Australia reporting a five-fold increase in funds under management (FUM) to $50 billion since 2000. ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... other words, investors - including institutional investors - are more likely to follow the crowd before they follow quantitative fundamentals. Authors of the study, Robert Prechter, executive director of the Socionomics Institute in Gainesville, Georgia ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

... to those with 'alpha' returns. Global Index Plus (GIP) uses an 'active enhanced' index approach meaning they use quantitative techniques to build portfolios that mimic benchmarks but including a filtering process that puts more investments in the top ...

Inalytics wins first Aussie mandate

... competition and choice, Australian superannuation funds, multi-managers and fund managers are increasingly demanding quantitative analysis to identify investment skill," said Amanda Field, managing director of Inalytics, Asia Pacific. "At Inalytics ...