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Boutique manager names head of distribution

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
A boutique global equities fund manager has hired a distribution lead, formerly of Meritum Financial Group. Gold Coast-based fund manager Swell Asset Management appointed Stephen Poole as head of distribution. Poole was the general manager of NAB's ...

Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... meet our mandates in the periods ahead, we need to ramp up our activity in a number of areas particularly what are called alpha seeking strategies...so we need more staff to do that," he said, referring to external manager selection. "Thirdly, we feel ...

Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
A panel of policy, research and economics experts at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds offered their view of the COVID-19 recovery, revealing how the pandemic changed economies. AlphaBeta Australia managing director Amit Singh referred to ...

New Martin Gilbert vehicle strikes first deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... major step since, AssetCo has acquired Edinburgh-based Saracen Fund Managers. Saracen currently operates the TB Saracen UK Alpha Fund, TB Saracen Global Income and Growth Fund and TB Saracen UK Income Fund. In total the fund have £119 million in assets ...

UBS shuts fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... winding up the UBS-HALO Australian Share Fund. The termination was effective April 28. The strategy, where HALO stood for high alpha long term opportunity, invested in about 20 ASX-listed stocks. It is one of the lineup that UBS added to ASX's mFunds ...

Research firm launches, hires Macquarie exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... London-based firm works with investment managers to see where in their investment decision-making process can deliver better alpha. Goodman said he has seen demand from assets owners for this type of offering over the last two years in Europe. With global ...

Schroders launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... 80% of assets are owned by retail investors creating an opportunity for more experienced institutional investors to add alpha and this has been the case in recent years with active managers generating strong returns above benchmarks." He added that China ...

WTW commits to net zero

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... climate issues is resolved. "In particular, we think that understanding this transition will be one of the biggest sources of alpha across all asset classes and that this opportunity is likely to be greatest in the next few years," he said. "We will ...

Instos seek unique alternatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... environment, the shift to private asset classes and other alternatives has accelerated as more investors search for sources of alpha that are "idiosyncratic"- that is, not strongly correlated with other assets. "Rather than tapping private markets opportunistically ...

Northern Trust AM's stellar year

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... very nature have much larger capacity [because] they hold large number of very small active positions in looking for active alpha," he said, comparing it to fundamental managers who hold big positions in fewer stocks. Other factor-based funds management ...