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TCorp finalises restructure

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... management includes senior roles at Macquarie Group as head of Australian macro research and Credit Suisse as head of quantitative analysis for Australian equities. Derek Mock joins TCorp as a senior portfolio manager following more than a decade at ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... the same missive from the BOJ at the conclusion of its policy deliberations tomorrow: "The bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... repositioning their clients' nest eggs against a market crash or an economic slowdown. In the past fortnight, a JPMorgan quantitative model predicted a 60% chance of a US recession in the next two years. In the days prior to this, J.P. Morgan Asset ...

Super funds excel in reporting obligation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... from "detection" to a "self-correction" model of compliance. He went on to say the ATO is confident there's strong, quantitative evidence that super funds' member reporting obligations are being met to a high standard even in an environment of change. ...

Northern Trust appoints head of quant

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... as it expands its Australian business. Scott Bennett will now head Northern Trust's Australia and New Zealand quantitative research and client solutions in the Melbourne-based role. He will report to Northern Trust Asset Management's head for ...

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. ...