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Industry funds continue risk-adjusted domination

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... to assess MySuper performance the same way many managed funds are assessed, using a selection of strictly defined quantitative measures of volatility against returns," said Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance, at the ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... finding it hard to sell their fixed interest assets to any buyer other than the RBA," Bardsley said. He said the RBA's quantitative easing is not "creating the volumes that institutional fund managers need" to de-risk and rebalance exposures and raise ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... prices isn't unheard of. "In late 2008, equities rallied in response to the Federal Reserve's (Fed) first round of quantitative easing and other programs aimed at supporting the economy," he said. "While investors welcomed these moves, it can be argued ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... 26% of Cbus's total assets are managed internally at the moment. It has internal teams on global equities, EM, quantitative equities, Australian small caps, Australian direct lending, infrastructure, cash, fixed income portfolios and its subsidiary ...

Hedge fund with zero correlation to equities to launch

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... recent sell-off but our trades all functioned as we had expected." To do this, the fund uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to test its strategies. "We are not just data mining looking for good trades, we specifically design trades to have ...

Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior quantitative strategist and portfolio manager for insurance linked securities. Bulfin had a 10 year career at Goldman Sachs as a macro ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... ¥3.2 trillion and ¥4.2 trillion, respectively); it will continue purchases of ETFs and J-REITS; and maintain its "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control". This follows Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement in early ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... he said. Anthony Kirkham, portfolio manager for the Legg Mason Western Asset Australia Bond Fund said that whilst quantitative easing can broadly define what many central bank responses has been, the RBAs response has offered more "nuances". "In our ...

The shape of recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... portfolio manager at Marcus Today, said he suspects the traditional economic playbook has been thrown out the window. "Quantitative easing (QE) was an unfinished experiment as central banks never really unwound it," Jennings said. "Now we have gone QE ...

Janus Henderson announces equity team changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... senior roles in equities, as a portfolio manager, group lead, director of research, as well as also running various quantitative strategies and teams. He was most recently chief investment officer for City National Rochdale, a role he held since 2018. ...