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Former PIMCO chief boosts Aussie fintech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... engagement established by Mackenzie - a former QIC chief strategist - in 2014. QIC's former head of equities Rob Wood and quantitative strategist David Priest are also on the Jacobi leadership team.

VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... Australia as a pricing and client strategy analyst, and at Rice Warner as an actuarial analyst. At VanEck, he will build quantitative models for portfolio management and investment performance analytics and attribution, in supporting the trading of equities ...

HESTA appoints quant general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
The chief quantitative strategist for AXA Investment Managers' equities business has jumped to a $46 billion superannuation fund. HESTA has appointed Michael Kollo as its general manager quantitative solutions and risk, effective July 30. He was ...

UBS chief investment strategist leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... Prior to UBS, Cassidy was an equity strategist at J.P. Morgan for about eight years. He worked at Ord Minnett as a quantitative research analyst before this. The departure was reported in a daily newspaper yesterday. Cassidy completed a Master of Business ...

Family offices maintain equity allocations: Study

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
Latest research shows less than one-third of family offices are using quantitative models to determine asset class allocations and position sizes. At the same time, equity allocations remain unchanged. These are the key takeaways from the most recent ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... philosophy and company evaluation process known as PVT (potential, valuation and timing) as well as its proprietary quantitative screening tool MoneyPenny. Equity Trustees will be the responsible entity for the Australian unit trust, Barham added. The ...

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... client of the business and we have had them for about three years," Brant said. The local team includes a senior quantitative strategist in Melbourne, and a team of six in Sydney which is led by a professional with experience in developing compliant ...

BAT stocks worse than FANGs: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... State Street Global Advisors. A May strategy highlights note written by SSGA chief investment officer, global active quantitative equities, Olivia Engel and senior portfolio manager Chee Ooi, compares BATs and FANGS. "Viewed through the lens of our proprietary ...

Industry fund welcomes new investment head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... consultant with Frontier where he held a number of roles, including head of currency. Prior to Frontier, Selioutine was a quantitative analyst at Antipodean Capital Management and also served as a research assistant at the University of Melbourne. Selioutine ...

Former Janus exec to lead APAC distribution for US hedge fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... environment that fosters unconventional thinking and innovative insights," Landau said. "The fusion of fundamental and quantitative research provides us with a global knowledge advantage, which we seek to efficiently put to work for our clients." Causeway ...