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Industry fund awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... while improving the sustainability profile of their portfolios," he said. The mandate will be managed by Robeco's Quantitative Equities team, consisting of more than 40 portfolio manager and quantitative researchers dedicated to quantitative investing ...

Millennials not attracted to property

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... six months of 2019 being sustained over the medium term," Doyle said. "In the short term, any interest rate cuts or quantitative easing from the RBA would certainly provide a tailwind for house prices, but with the Cash Rate already at an all-time low ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... highlight investment strategies showcasing the qualities investors seek in an investment manager, determined by a quantitative methodology that equally weights six-year performance factors with five key risk measures; the Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio ...

Investment boutique makes PIMCO hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... allocation and portfolio risk management." Prior to the Ardea appointment, Ryan worked as the senior vice president of quantitative research at PIMCO, while also co-founding an ethical investment fund that was transferred to Ardea at the end of 2019. ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... 2018." Hip, hip. The RBA wouldn't need to exhaust all its interest rate cut bullets, not to mention engage in quantitative easing, anymore. More so, given that the Morrison government - forgive my cynicism but in its bid to remain in government - ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... manager. Former CFS executive manager of deposits and investment products Mark Mukundan has joined the $140 billion quantitative firm's Australian office in a newly created role. He joins as vice president product and wholesale markets, in a move designed ...

ESG scores may be inflated: Eaton Vance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... joint research titled Financial quality metrics and ESG factor interactions in equity markets, co-authors and ESG quantitative research analysts Alexander Deleon and Yijia Chen, explored the relationship between quality factors and ESG factors, as well ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... Samranvedhya. But on the other hand... I say that Mario Draghi's experiment into negative interest rates and quantitative easing - and all his policy measures in-between - had been successful. I didn't dub him Super Mario for nothing (yes, I ...

Industry funds dominate risk-adjusted MySuper returns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... 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 director of research. "There is much more to assessing ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... conditions persist, 2020 will see the RBA take interest rates to its stated line in the sand of 0.25%, venture into quantitative easing, and the Morrison government forced into raising government spending - bringing forward more tax cuts and lifting ...