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Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... necessary: "We are prepared to do unconventional things if the circumstances warranted it". Negative interest rates? Quantitative easing? You name it! But these policy prescriptions/actions aren't "unconventional" anymore... they have become the ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... negative 0.35%. "The RBNZ could also conduct large scale purchases of either government or corporate bonds, known as quantitative easing" or "the targeted use of fiscal policy to support any unconventional monetary policy," it says. Surely, other central ...

JANA hires quantitative applications lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... Consultants appointed a former Victorian Funds Management Corporation executive in the newly created role of head of quantitative applications. Michael Watt was chief executive and principal consultant at PortfolioMetrics for almost two years before ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... healthcare and industrials (about 11% each). Earlier this year, Liu's longstanding co-portfolio manager Sean Fenton and a quantitative analyst Peter Moore left the firm to start a new boutique at Channel Capital.

AXA equities executive departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... Framlington in November, He began his career as an economist at Williams and Glynn (now RBS). In June last year, the chief quantitative strategist for AXA Investment Managers' Rosenberg equities business moved to HESTA where he took on the role of ...

New climate risk government bond index launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... FTSE Climate Risk-Adjusted World Government Bond Index (Climate WGBI) yesterday, allowing investors to consider a quantitative measure of climate risk to sovereign debt for the first time, it said. Derived from the firm's World Government Bond Index ...

Pendal appoints machine learning expert

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
Pendal is welcoming a machine learning quantitative analyst to its bond, income and defensive strategies boutique. Itay Feldman has been recruited by Pendal - initially on a one year contract - with the goal of integrating machine learning into the ...

Parametric bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... company from AQR Capital Management where he was managing director, firm-wide risk management. Prior to AQR, he was a quantitative researcher at Citadel and a member of the factor model research team at MSCI Barra. Hood also joins Parametric from AQR ...

Tribeca's Fenton to set up shop at Channel

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... certain functions with Mark Landau's long/short equities house L1 Capital. Fenton is joined by Peter Moore, a quantitative analyst at Tribeca who resigned on April 8, only a couple of days after Fenton's resignation was made public. Others on ...

Frontier expands business, hires five

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... currency team. He previously worked at J.P. Morgan's London office where he has spent the last four years providing quantitative and qualitative portfolio analysis, and other risk management functions across different asset classes. Having recently ...