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Analyse this: Dow Jones

... group's invention could change that and is part of the ongoing refinements to the way many institutions do their quantitative market analysis. Dow Jones & Company publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. ...

Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

New research from Inalytics, a company that conducts quantitative analysis on fund manager skill, has found that a fund manager's "unintended bias" against small cap shares is costing investors 65 basis points per month in 2006 or a loss of over seven ...

IOOF increases fund options by a dozen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... improving and enhancing our offer." O'Conner said the new options gave advisers access to internal gearing strategies, quantitative of thematic styles, emerging funds, concentrated portfolios or income yield products. The move also boosted the credentials ...

H3 Global Commodities Fund gets S&P tick

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
... track record was short, the H3 team and processes were well established. "H3 Global Advisors (H3) has developed the quantitative process over many years, and has implemented it successfully since 1996. The investment team is sufficiently staffed and ...

Macq and UNSW do the maths

... Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS). Doug Moss, division director of the bank's Quantitative Applications Division said that the local financial services industry will benefit from new valuation models that keep pace ...

Fund managers better buyers than sellers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... investments they have selected are inadvertently hurting their performance by making poor selling decisions, said quantitative research specialist Inalytics. "By their nature, fund managers are optimists. They're always looking for the next best position. ...

BlackRock accumulating mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... active-extension mandate, while TASPLAN handed over $80 million as a 150/50 long-short mandate. Ken Liow, head of quantitative investments in Australia, said he believed the business was building on the strengths of a solid and attractive quantitative ...

AXA wins Life Insurer of the Year

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... in the key areas of product and service quality as judged by AFA members. The research process included a mix of quantitative analysis, conducted by Plan for Life, and an online survey of service quality, with feedback taken from a large cross-section ...

QIC makes room for new managers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... stages into its investment theses. It has been awarded a $31 million manadate. ClariVest, based in San Diego, is a quantitative manager and has been awarded a $37 million mandate. Greg Liddell, QIC head of implemented equities, said the change in managers ...

Ausbil Dexia recruits two, promotes two

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... reviews John Honan has been promoted to head of research while Khay-Tuck Chow has been promoted to associate director, quantitative.