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Popularity soars for managed accounts

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
... said. Taking place between December 2021 and January 2022, the 13th edition of the report was conducted via an online quantitative survey for 669 Australian-based financial advisers.

Northern Trust creates new APAC quant team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
Northern Trust has established a new team of quantitative specialists for Asia Pacific, to be led out of Melbourne. Scott Bennett has been appointed as head of quantitative investment solutions, Asia Pacific, and will lead the new quant team. Bennett ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... in fossil fuel producers as having long-term risk. "I think gender is the next frontier," Hobbs says. In 2019, a quantitative study from S&P Global looking at the Russell 3000 index found that firms with female chief executives or chief financial officers ...

Mingshi Investment Management to launch local offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... research, with world class trading and risk management arguably have an edge right now." Founded in 2010, Mingshi is a quantitative manager with about US$3 billion in assets under management.

JANA makes five senior appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... investment research. The leadership shuffle at JANA also includes the external appointment of Chris Worthington as head of quantitative analysis and risk. Worthington joined from NZ Super where he was senior investment strategist, asset allocation. "In ...

Inflation to hit ASX returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
According to new quantitative analysis, higher inflation in Australia is set to have a negative impact for ASX investors. SigTech, a quantitative technology company, provided analysis on how various inflation levels over the past 50 years have impacted ...

Plato launches net zero fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... while maintaining a net zero carbon footprint," Allen said. The strategy is underpinned by the firm's proprietary quantitative systems, he added. "For example, Plato's Red Flags Model which incorporates more than 100 ESG red flags, including ...

Economists expect a rate rise: Finder

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... be in for a shock when their mortgage costs start to climb." Capital Economics' Ben Udy said the RBA will end quantitative easing, a process where the central bank creates new cash to decrease, or ease, the cost of borrowing, in February. "While ...

Frontier recruits two senior consultants

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... works as a senior consultant in the alternatives and derivatives research team. Swaak was most recently a director of quantitative finance solutions at Deloitte and worked for the likes of QIC, Macquarie and SJS Family Office. Former United Nations PRI ...

New boutique at Pendal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... Treharne and Thomas Ciszewski. Lu is assistant portfolio manager to Gor, as well as working on government and credit quantitative modelling. Meanwhile, Feldman is a quantitative analyst focused on machine learning, Treharne is a quantitative analyst ...