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Manager-of-managers investing still on the rise

... manager-of-managers market has found assets in multi-manager products increased by 32 per cent in 2004. The study, called Cerulli Quantitative Update: Global Multi-manager Products 2005, is based upon total assets under management as at 31 December 2004 ...

Investors warned not to rule out entire sectors

... on its own merits regardless of the sector to which it belongs. Lincoln Indicators itself examines companies using quantitative means such as earnings per share growth, return on assets, and price earnings/price earnings growth. Employing this method ...

Morningstar feels Advance needs to boost bull market returns

... outperformance. Stock selection is the primary alpha driver. Advance combines qualitative information from research houses and quantitative measures such as portfolio holdings when selecting its submanager line up. Fund managers Maple-Brown Abbott (MBA) ...

Standard & Poor's reinstates ratings for AMP and Rubicon

... says Hogan. "The FDF investment committee's decision-making process is largely subjective supported by proprietary quantitative tools, industry standard software and Mercer's information database," adds Hogan.

Morningstar views United as a steady earner

... Perpetual, BGI, and Alpha as its core group of submanagers, a move the research house views favourably. Qualitative and quantitative techniques are used to select the submanagers with heavy reliance on external research houses' opinions. The manager ...

CFS JVs with Acadian

... Acadian Asset Management (Australia) - will develop equity management products for a local market using the specialist quantitative investment techniques developed by Acadian over the last three decades. "We conducted a global search to find the best ...

GSJBWere Asset Management launches new take on long/short funds

... positions are designed to equal that of the short positions while targeting a beta of 1. According to managing director quantitative resources for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York Tom Dempsey the fund is not a hedge fund, as it does not have ...

ASIC clarifies position on disclosing impact of IFRS

... full-year adoption of the new standards. Specifically companies will need to disclose any known or reliably estimable quantitative differences to the accounts had IFRS been used to prepare them. If the differences are not quantifiable then companies ...

Morningstar announces major revamp of ratings

... approach for star ratings and adopting the US approach whereby star ratings are based entirely on the researcher's quantitative analysis. According to head of consulting Anthony Serhan the changes, which have been speculated on for some time by the market ...

GSJBWere expands with new private wealth heads

... the Global Long/Short Fund - to market as a result of the merger. Goldman Sachs Asset Management managing director quantitative resources in New York Tom Dempsey will launch the new product in Sydney this Friday.