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Antipodes expands investment team, creates active ETF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... now responsible for about $7 billion in assets under management, Mitchell said. Joining the investment team as a quantitative investment specialist is Kieran Rabbitt. He is the fourth hire among Antipodes' quant team and will be responsible for portfolio ...

Diversity leads growth manager in new direction

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... In 2016, Platypus Asset Management decided to rebuild its ESG investment approach from the bottom up. Built by its quantitative investment team, the asset manager placed 45 factors into its Australian equities database and came up with three broad groups ...

Acadian appoints investments head from SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... working in our Boston office since October so it's great to finally have him on the ground with us." "He has a strong quantitative background, and - importantly for the ongoing development of our business in Australia - extensive experience of running ...

Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Big data 2.0 remains in its early stages for quantitative asset managers as they attempt to be less dependent on history and evolve with more forward-looking risk considerations, especially around ESG and sustainable investing. This is the thoughts ...

Morningstar fuels fund ratings with AI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... intelligence to power its funds rating process to rate more than 10,000 products. The research house has launched Quantitative Rating, a machine learning and quant-driven system that boasts the ability to rate funds at six times the rate of a Morningstar ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... the portfolio. Macrovue's investment team scanned 5G listings across the world, placed high-returning stocks in a quantitative overlay, and finally selected stocks expected to yield high returns in the medium to long term. The fintech will charge 80 ...

Longreach inks deal with global data provider

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... by the former head of K2 Advisors Samuel Mann, formed a new partnership with a data provider to enhance its global quantitative alpha strategies. Under the partnership, Longreach will use Thomson Reuters' QA Direct data management tool as part the Longreach ...

Global firm builds Aussie equities team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... team, joining from the likes of Vanguard, BlackRock and IFM Investors. Joining Invesco's Melbourne-based Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) group are Neil Lahy, Ritchard Longmire, Andre Roberts and Richard Tsai who will each manage IQS' Australian ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... day despite BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda stressing the Japanese central bank's commitment towards maintaining its "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" and "expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... unchanged - voting unanimously to maintain the Bank Rate at 0.50% (which it lifted by 25 bps last November) and the quantitative easing ceilings for gilts and corporate bonds remain at £435 billion and £10 billion, respectively. Needless to say, the ...