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Morningstar creates chief ratings officer role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... funds, ETFs and other managed investments. Lee Davidson has been promoted to lead global manager of research and quantitative research, expanding on his existing remit. As the head of quantitative research for the past five years, Davidson joined as ...

American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... distributor Brookvine to pitch its flagship systematic global macro strategy. Welton Investment Partners is 15-year-old quantitative investor that manages money for institutional, endowment and private investors in United States and Europe. The strategy ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... nearly two times the amount of uncompensated risk versus compensated risk," Northern Trust Asset Management head of quantitative strategies Michael Hunstad said. "For investors, it was the fact they simply weren't getting paid for all the risks they ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... before, this time is different. In his speech, the governor laid out the case for another interest rate reduction or quantitative easing, or both, perhaps as soon as the next board meeting in November. "When the pandemic was at its worst and there were ...

RIAA, AXA IM launch adviser ESG guide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... investment goals. They are attracting sophisticated investors who expect very clear and detailed reporting, both quantitative and qualitative," he said. AXA IM head of core client group, Australia Michelle Lacey said there are many different approaches ...

State Super appoints academic oversight body

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... his PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics and has extensive industry experience in the application of quantitative statistical methods at Blackrock, Fidelity, AXA Rosenberg and HESTA. "The increasing scale and sophistication of capital markets ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... investing in global markets, according to Realindex. In a research paper titled Value is dead, long live value, Realindex quantitative analyst Wang Chun Wei takes aim at criticisms of value investing. "We don't believe that value investing is dead, just ...

Ausbil drops fees on global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... year and removed both the RE fee and normal capped expenses. The fund holds a portfolio of about 220 stocks, using a quantitative multi-factor based model on the SRI universe. It has had a good year of performance, returning 7.6% (after fee but before ...

Multi-strategy fund launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
A boutique Australian investment manager has launched a fund that uses sophisticated quantitative and foreign-exchange trading strategies. The Ferguson Hyams Multi-Strategy Fund was made available in mid-August and managed by Bermuda-registered Incu ...

Lazard launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... York and Paris. Lazard said the fund employs a fundamental, bottom-up approach that uses rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis to drive security selection, complemented by a top-down process that "guides tactical positioning". "Investors have ...