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Boutique to launch flagship fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... fund this month. Melbourne-based Blue Orbit Asset Management will launch the Blue Orbit Australian Small Caps Systematic Alpha Fund to institutional investors this month. The boutique, which was initially founded in 2018, is specifically focused on quantitative ...

Tribeca Alpha Plus leaks $600m, rebuilds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... since co-portfolio manager left in April but performance is looking up and there are new hires on the team. The Tribeca Alpha Plus fund was down to $331 million in assets under management at June end, from $978 million in April across its three share ...

Sean Fenton back with Sage Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... with two Aussie equities strategies totaling $3 billion in capacity at his new boutique, after resigning from the Tribeca Alpha Plus fund earlier in the year. Sage Capital, led by former Tribeca portfolio manager Sean Fenton, is kicking off with a team ...

RWC expands global equities team

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... commented: "We are focused on pursuing an unconstrained and bottom-up investment approach that will help us deliver multi-year alpha to our clients." "Benjamin and Nathanial share this belief and their insight and experience will be invaluable as we ...

Sydney portfolio manager on best female fundies list

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... across the globe. Kate Howitt, the manager for Fidelity Australian Opportunities Fund since 2012, came in at 27th in the Alpha Female Awards 2019. Howitt scored 243 points on Citywire's methodology. The top fundie on the list, Allianz Global Investors ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... potential downside to the equity index which should act as a buying opportunity," Liu, who manages the $978 million Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund, said at a Sydney briefing yesterday. In recent months, the ASX 200 has seen an upwards earning price revision ...

Shorting doesn't have to be risky: Solaris

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... the two shorting techniques Solaris favours are funding and pair straights, saying: "They produce a great increase to our alpha without having the commensurate increase in risk." Explaining the pair straights technique in detail, Martin said Solaris ...

QSuper names investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... with external investment managers, for a combined total of $55 billion. He joined QSuper from QIC, where he was director of Alpha Investments and before that was managing director of Los Angeles-based fund manager Stonebridge Capital Management. Woodhouse ...

Fidelity appoints sustainable investing lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... played an instrumental part in building our corporate governance and capital markets capability in Asia, contributing to alpha creation for our portfolios, as well as playing an active role in raising awareness of sustainability issues." Tan is based ...

Modern slavery rife across sectors: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... could build a portfolio of expensive stocks. Instead, it deploys an "ESG momentum" strategy. "It makes more sense finding alpha in companies trying to improve their ESG strategies [and as a result that could] lead to premium valuations," he said. This ...