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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 ...

New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... portfolio to taxes has launched a new fund aiming to solve the problem. Redpoint Investment Management is starting a quantitative equities fund with Generation Life that aims to return 1-2% higher after-tax returns than the S&P ASX 200 benchmark would ...

PM Capital head of distribution departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... raised about $9 billion in funds under management in Australia across its global real estate, liquid alternatives and quantitative equities strategies, through a 12-person strong sales and distribution team. About $1 billion of this is wholesale which ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... inflation target. 'Abenomics' might need a fourth arrow and/or the BOJ will have to go beyond maintaining its "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control" policy.

Multi-asset SMA launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... AFSL and is proud to be self-licensed, the founders said. The managers use a 'quantamental' approach, a blend of quantitative and fundamental investing. Morton said this means the portfolio is better placed to perform in different market environments. ...

Janus Henderson EM team crumbles

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... investment capability," a spokesperson said. Janus Henderson manages US$350 billion across equities, fixed income, quantitative equities, multi-asset and alternatives. Most of its AUM is raised through the intermediary channel (43%), followed by institutional ...