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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 ...

Hedge fund industry body promotes Aussie talent

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... continuing to support industry growth and development over what are likely to be two fascinating years for markets as quantitative easing ceases and more powerful technologies continue to transform practices," Chadwick said. AIMA Australia general manager ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... the price stability target by introducing forward guidance for policy rates, and to enhance the sustainability of "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control." The first forward guidance under the new expanded monetary ...

Aberdeen Standard launches AI-powered global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Aberdeen Standard Investments launched a new fund that uses active quantitative strategies powered by machine learning to identify sources of potential returns. Launched in Luxembourg, the Aberdeen Global (AG) Artificial Intelligence Global Equity SICAV ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ kills off specs (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... the price stability target by introducing forward guidance for policy rates, and to enhance the sustainability of "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control." Yes Virginia, the BOJ has added another tool to try and coax ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... stewardship when it rolled out one policy stimulus after another to try and get to that elusive 2% inflation. There was quantitative easing in 2013 and expanded in 2014, QE with negative interest rate in January 2016 that later became "Qualitative and ...