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European robo-adviser eyes Australia, taps Westpac exec

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... InvestSuite will launch four white-label products into the Australian market, including its Portfolio Optimizer (quantitative downside protection for investors), Self Investor (an online investment platform), StoryTeller (an automated reporting solution) ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... revolution that was the internet," State Street Global Advisors Australia head of portfolio management and active quantitative equities, Bruce Apted said. "How many of the now 'market darlings'... will be in the top 10 in 2030, and how many will still ...

No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... in one form or another. I would like to explain why." Lowe said that while the bank has considered many methods of quantitative easing, he dismissed the concept of the bank having the ability to provide any direct funding. "The message here is that somebody ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... in a broad sell off as investors rushed into cash. However government interventions including rate cuts and global quantitative easing forced down yields and had a positive impact on many fixed income portfolios" Invesco head of official institutions ...

GMO acquires Japanese equity manager

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... investment firm GMO has acquired a Japanese investment advisory firm and nabbed two senior executives from PGIM's quantitative investment manager QMA. GMO has acquired Usonian Investments, a value-orientated Japanese equity manager. "Usonian manages ...

US investment firm launches in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... of a scientific, data-intensive investment process that is operated by a deeply experienced team with decades of quantitative investment research help set apart ARP from other investment managers in the space," Axius managing director George Giovas said. ...

State Street cuts fees on flagship equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... Equity Fund will drop by 13bps, going to 85bps per year in management costs from 98bps. Both funds sit under its quantitative equities team led by Olivia Engel and consist of 43 investment professionals. "Both funds seek to deliver strong total returns ...

Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... the latter adds two others to its Asia Pacific team. Rupeng Chen worked on Schroders' global and emerging market quantitative equity products across Asia Pacific, based out of Sydney. She has previously worked at Mercer as an actuarial consultant. In ...

Life insurers disregard code of practice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... to ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place to comply with the Code and report, via complete and accurate quantitative data, both internally and externally."

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... website claiming its GrowthX option "measure companies". In reality 79% of the fund was tracking an index without any quantitative analysis in June 2017. In 2017, ASIC went after CommInsure for "misleading and deceptive statements" on some of CommInsure ...