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Global fund manager expands Australian operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... research and insights are relevant and impactful to Australian investors." Research Affiliates is based in Newport Beach, California. It was founded by Rob Arnott in 2002 who currently serves as chair.

Asset manager hires insto sales director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... June 2017. Prior to this, she was a vice president of global consultant relations covering the US West Coast based in California. In her new role as Legg Mason's institutional sales director, she will report to business head Andy Sowerby. "Christina ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Parametric has teamed up with a California-based smart beta and asset allocation specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative ...

Pension fund CIO departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
The chief investment officer at one of the world's largest pension funds has resigned, citing family reasons. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced Ted Eliopoulos will leave at the end of the year, with the search ...

Contango restructure sees reduced headcount

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... two new ETFs in the fixed-interest space in the next 12 months as well as an exchange-traded managed fund (ETMF) via California-based WCM Investment Management." He described the full acquisition of Switzer Asset Management as a key part of CGA's new ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... Roubini said today in an interview at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Risk Management Conference in Dana Point, California. A level of "500 is less likely, but there is some possibility you get there." Bloomberg published this sometime in March 2009... ...

Super fund ESG specialist joins PRI committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... Pension Plan (co-chairs of the committee in 2017), Matthieu Baret of Idinvest Partners, and John Beil of University of California for the time and expertise that they dedicated to their roles on the committee. HESTA's Saleeba is also on the PRI's Australia ...

Game theory revolutionises risk profiling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... other traditional data collection methods with game theory and behavioural economics. Invented by former University of California Berkeley Economics Department chair Shachar Kariv, TrueProfile is built on the reality that clients cannot accurately state ...

Deutsche AM maps impact of climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... management, now mapping the physical location of corporate facilities and their exposure to climate risks. Partnering with a California-based climate intelligence advisory firm Four Twenty Seven, the physical locations of more than one million global ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... $485,575 4 National Pension South Korea $462,161 5 ABP Netherlands $404,310 6 National Social Security China $348,662 7 California Public Employees U.S. $306,633 8 Canada Pension Canada $235,790 9 Central Provident Fund Singapore $227,102 10 PFZW Netherlands ...