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Mason Stevens appoints head of asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022
... "Paul comes to us with more than 30 years of market experience with a strong background in portfolio construction and quantitative analysis." "He will be instrumental in helping advisers and managers evaluate and implement, disciplined portfolios that ...

VFMC appoints head of investment risk, absolute returns

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2022
... member of the investment leadership team. Aarons is also an adjunct associate professor of the Monash Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies. Prior to joining VFMC, Aarons spent more than 13 years at NAB, including as head of FICC ...

IFM Investors launches climate transition fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022
... help direct capital towards companies developing climate solutions," IFM Investors executive director, index and quantitative equities Laurence Irlicht said. "We created the climate transition fund to help institutional investors - such as super funds ...

Cbus snares head of debt from Perpetual

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
Cbus Super has appointed Anne Moal as its first head of direct debt and illiquid credit as the $73.5 billion fund's debt portfolio hits over $1 billion. Reporting to head of debt and alternatives Linda Cunningham, Moal will have primary responsibility ...

Frontier adds to real assets team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
... where she held a range of roles analysing markets, employing modelling techniques, forecasting using qualitative and quantitative data sets and preparing research reports for publication. Frontier's Sydney team is growing, with three senior appointment ...

SEC proposes new disclosure for ESG funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... designed to meet demand from investors seeking environmentally focused fund investments for consistent and comparable quantitative information regarding the GHG emissions associated with their portfolios and to allow investors to make decisions in line ...

RBA outlines next phase of bond purchase program

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... the proceeds from bonds as they mature from the bank's portfolio. This decision by the RBA is indicative of a new quantitative tightening phase of its bond purchase program. This means the RBA will allow its bond holding to gradually diminish over time ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
... by Rainmaker Information. The Investment Leadership Award finalists - and subsequent winners - are determined by a quantitative methodology that equally weights six-year performance factors with five key risk measures: the Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio ...

Schroders hires investment director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022
... Morcos said. "Her extensive asset class experience, in Australian equities as well as global equities, fundamental and quantitative equities, fixed income, listed infrastructure and investment solutions, make her a good fit for the team." Williams' other ...

Breach reporting regime a distraction: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
... all providers. Just 15% believe it can. Gadens partner Liam Hennessy said the research provides an insight into the quantitative and qualitative trends of breach reporting, ahead of when ASIC plans to publicly release data comparing organisations. "Breach ...