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Equity based strategies hedge fund winners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... selected as Best Offshore Manager operating in Australia and AWJ Fund won Best Fund of Funds. Paul Chadwick, the former head of GMO Australasia, now a director of Nanuk Asset Management and a director CQS Australia, received the Contribution to the Australian ...

SSgA names new Aus equities head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... respond to various macroeconomic and investment environments," said Reinganum. Engel's former roles include eight years with GMO Australia, during which she was a senior portfolio manager for Australian equity portfolios, and experience in active quantitative ...

Plato poaches GMO quant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... Street Global Advisors, with Mark Thompson joining the boutique fund as a senior portfolio manager. Thompson joins Plato from GMO, where he led research into equity valuation models and enhancements to portfolio construction for GMO's long-short funds. ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
GMO asset manager James Montier implored investors to move beyond policy benchmarks, and called for a risk rethink at a recent Investment Management Consultants Association conference. "The minute you give an investment manager a policy benchmark, all ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... alternatives in the portfolios to give it more diversity," said Kent. UCSuper also invests in the BNY Mellon Global Alpha Trust, GMO Systematic Global Macro Trust and Macquarie Professional Series - Winton Global Alpha Fund in its alternatives portfolio. ...

Clash of the titans on housing bubble

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... housing bubble resurfaced this week and two of the world's leading investment houses are on opposite sides of the argument. GMO's Jeremy Grantham, a self-confessed student of asset price bubbles and an outspoken believer of the existence of one in Australian ...

Westscheme overhauls intl equities portfolio

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... managers with a variety of different approaches. These changes follow the super fund dropping its emerging markets mandates with GMO and BlackRock and appointing Schroders in their place in April this year.

NZ Super axes GMO mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... Zealand Superannuation has terminated its global equity, non-US small-cap equity and multi-strategy equity mandates managed by GMO. The guardians of New Zealand Superannuation made the announcement today, and said GMO Renewable Resources continues to ...

Westscheme drops GMO and BlackRock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Westscheme has dropped its emerging market equities mandates with GMO and BlackRock, appointing Schroders in their place. The WA-based super fund negotiated with Schroders a fee structure comprised of a moderate base fee and a significant performance ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... yield bonds but at lower risk levels," said Steve Frank, chair of the board at APFC. The investment meeting also resulted in GMO being approved as a real return manager. GMO was given between $250 million and $500 million. Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) ...