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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 ...

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 ...