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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 ...

Ophir Asset Management expands investment team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... following recent stints at Ausbil Microcap Fund and Bennelong Australian Equity Partners. Prior to this, he was a quantitative associate with Bell Potter Securities. "We're very excited to welcome Josh to the team," Ophir co-founder and senior portfolio ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... around 0% and asset purchases at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion - and promised that the bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management restructures for efficiency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... its teams from subsidiaries THEAM and CamGestion with that of its multi-asset solutions division, the multi-asset, quantitative and solutions (MAQS) becomes the firm's fourth investment group alongside private debt and real assets, equities, and fixed ...

Mason Stevens expands fixed income, appoints SMA manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... after Mason Stevens expanded its fixed income SMA team with the appointment of Paul Wylie, whose role is to provide quantitative analysis on fixed income securities for retail fixed income SMAs. Wylie was previously head of credit solutions and strategic ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
A global quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony ...