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Chief economist update: When QE turns to QT

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... flow... and with the Fed shrinking its balance sheet, there's lesser liquidity to underwrite US financial markets. Quantitative Tightening (QT). The Fed started to shrink its balance by US$10 billion a month in October, November and December last ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... savings in real terms." "Despite 10 years of low interest rates and a few years of negative interest rates because of quantitative easing in Europe, households still keep holding cash and do not own investment products," Greco said. "Why? Because they ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
A $160 billion global quantitative investment manager is supporting research that aims to determine whether cryptocurrency prices are predictable. Using natural language processing, the Oxford-Man Institute research is attempting to identify tradeable ...

Diversity a material economic indicator: AXA IM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... management believes diversity is a material economic indicator. Latest research from AXA Investment Managers' (AXA IM) quantitative platform Rosenberg Equities shows the level of an entity's board diversity can be used to predict its financial outcomes ...

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... months. Increased competition, intense fee pressure and the need for differentiation is driving active, passive, quantitative, fundamental, traditional and alternative managers to find ways to leverage machine learning to capture alpha, Bloomberg said. ...

AMP Capital hires award-winning stock picker

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... welcome him to our team," Corona said. Debs started his career at PwC in accounting, worked at KPMG and moved into quantitative research in 2008 when he joined Credit Suisse.

Boutique manager expands fixed income team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... at Commonwealth Bank's global fixed income derivatives trading. With an actuarial background, he brings strong quantitative skills to the team, Ardea said. Ardea co-founder and principal Ben Alexander said: "These appointments represent an investment ...

ASIC hires former super executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... including deputy head for Australia, head of institutional business and head of strategic planning (alternative and quantitative). Press' prior experience includes working at SBC Asset Management and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Hughes has been ...

Industry fund awards sustainable equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... Fund will invest an undisclosed amount in Robeco's Emerging Markets Sustainable Active Equities strategy. Combining quantitative investing, emerging markets and sustainability investing, the strategy aims to offer a significantly better sustainability ...

Global asset manager launches smart beta indices

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... by 2-4% over the medium to long-term, gross of fee and trading costs. Aberdeen Standard Investments global head of quantitative investments Sean Phayre said: "The new equity indices are purely multifactor in approach as we believe that this approach ...