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Alternative beta corresponds with adviser risk concerns

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
An international quantitative investment manager with growing operations in Australia believes alternative investment strategies match the ongoing concerns investors and advisers hold around risk. Capital Fund Management head of Asia Pacific, Steve ...

CBA creates new lead research role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... said the role's creation reinforces its commitment to offering clients unique insights and access to the best data, quantitative and analytics capability. Commenting on the appointment, CBA executive general manager global markets Andrew Hinchliff described ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... the recent market reaction to taper speculations would instead ensure that the BOJ would continue with its policy "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" and "expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year ...

2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... strategies meet these criterion, Financial Standard commissioned Rainmaker Information to develop an intentionally quantitative data-driven methodology to reveal which investment managers have persistently demonstrated an ability to deliver investment ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... We all know what they say in the face of uncertainty and that is... to do nothing: "The Bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent ...

Eurozone low-flation to 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... is forecasts at 1.5% in 2019 and 1.7% by 2020 - the ECB's forward guided interest rate hike late next year and/or quantitative tightening becomes questionable. Then again, the ECB could cite the Fed as a precedent - which has done both under the same ...

Financial Standard names Investment Leadership Award winners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... analysed 120 investment managers and more than 900 strategies with the help of Rainmaker Information to develop a quantitative data-driven methodology. Rainmaker Information head of investment research John Dyall said the awards do not replace qualitative ...

Financial Standard launches the Investment Leadership Awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... Distinguishing it from existing fund manager awards, Financial Standard worked with Rainmaker Information to develop a quantitative methodology that equally weights performance factors (over a total period of six years) with five different risk measures. ...

Former industry fund CIO leaves Vanguard after seven months

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... insights into Vanguard's equities investment solutions for clients, working closely with its Equity Index Group and Quantitative Equity Group. In reference to her employment with the $5.9 trillion firm, McLaughlin's LinkedIn page reads: "Lesson to share ...

US firm hires QIC analyst in Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
A Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist has recruited a new head of quantitative modelling. David Priest joins Jacobi Strategies from QIC, where he was a quantitative strategist. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst ...