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Kardinia appoints analyst from Telstra Super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... time that Daly was "a great fit for the business culture, which strives for excellence in delivering best in class, high alpha investment managers and products."

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... objective of the fund is to achieve absolute return via "managing asset allocation market exposure and secondarily through alpha generated from selected investment strategies," according to PineBridge's statement, and to deliver CPI plus 5% (before fees) ...

AB wins industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... service which aims to improve risk-adjusted returns in multi-manager portfolios without reducing the potential to generate alpha. The service applies a "disciplined quantitative process" combining AB's proprietary risk and alpha models. It aims to reduce ...

Bennelong appoints distribution director from CFS

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... research. "Jonas is a great fit for the business culture, which strives for excellence in delivering best in class, high alpha investment managers and products," said Bennelong head of distribution Andrew Aitken.

OneVue sees growth in RE services

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... "We believe this demand for alternative products is firmly linked to market volatility and investors seeking lower risk, alpha style opportunities, whilst investing outside of Australia has been driven by attractive opportunities and valuations in certain ...

New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... since the development of reliable, systematic implementation technologies. In short, many hedge fund managers are charging alpha fees for beta return sources that can be harvested cheaply. Furthermore, alternative beta strategies ask questions of traditional ...

Aberdeen Australian equities fund upgraded

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... exposures. "There are some compelling reasons for investing outside the top 20 Australian stocks. Our research shows that alpha potential for active Australian equity managers increases when you exclude the largest 20 companies from the ASX 300 index. ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Prior to that he was the director of implemented solutions at QIC and he was responsible for managing its external manager alpha program. Victoria Vodolazschi has been appointed in New York City and will focus on long/ short equity, macro and systematic ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... getting a large exposure of their portfolios to passive strategies and they come to active managers and boutiques looking for alpha," he said. REST chief executive Damian Hill explained: "We don't turn over managers that much and we try not to have too ...

AB fund receives Lonsec rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... competitive investment returns," said AB Australia chief executive Jen Driscoll. In August, Infocus-owned Alpha Fund Managers became the initial investor in the AB fund, adding it to its multi-manager portfolio. At the time, Infocus managing director ...