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MFS seeks name change to GEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... chief executive Guy Farrands. Farrands said the name overhaul "reflects the reality of the financial and operation separation that exists between [ASX listed] MFT and MFS". The groups' business structure and cultural focus will not be affected by the ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... yesterday, Hiscock's departure is the latest development in the MFS saga as the investment company considers a structural separation of its tourism arm, Stella Group, and MFS Financial Services. MFS has requested for the trading halt to remain until ...

MGI launches Queen Street Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... always had a deep research focus and the flexibility to respond to new developments in the industry such as alpha-beta separation, emerging boutique managers, new business models and investment strategies."

Investing by 2020

... at the key trends that will influence the funds management industry over the next ten years, including the ongoing separation of alpha and beta returns. "Institutional investment is based on the search for alpha or outperformance, however, active investment ...

Global competition drives local investor services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... these more complex services are the move to after-tax performance reporting, active extension investing, alpha and beta separation, managing the high number of boutiques now popular with super funds, monitoring private equity investments and implementing ...

QIC appoints new beta manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... abilities. "He will play an important on-going role, not only in the Global Fixed Interest team, but across QIC's alpha beta separation investment platform," she said. "Over time, the fixed interest beta management will broaden to cover a number of other ...

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

... mandate with Numeric Investors and awarded a new $250 million mandate to UK-based Henderson Global Investors. "Alpha-beta separation has been heavily talked about in the investment industry, but this reallocation is QIC and QSuper putting our investments ...

Alpha-beta separation boosts indexing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
The rise of alpha-beta separation and fee-for-service advice is driving new inflows into index funds, according to Susan Darroch, head of structured products at State Street Global Advisors. While recent market returns have done little to harm index ...

Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

... up their assets, many are planning to cover their liabilities through higher returns. "There is this alpha and beta separation where they [pension funds] are putting more resources into investment professionals looking after the alpha generation," said ...

Get rid of the Greek: Russell

The separation of alpha and beta when chasing the highest investment returns may be all the rage right now, but according to the head of Russell Investment the less Greek used in industry jargon the better off investors will be. Alan Schoenheimer, managing ...