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AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... assets such as the rail and highway networks. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at passenger trains and locomotives company Alpha Trains and its predecessor company where she held a variety of roles across business development, procurement and corporate ...

Quantifeed launches portfolio for car lovers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
Investment and robo-advice platform provider Quantifeed has created a model portfolio that taps the growing global industry of driverless cars. The model portfolio comprises companies that are leading the development of self-driving cars, including ...

OC Funds Management wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
A multi-manager appointed OC Funds Management to oversee its micro-cap strategy. Melbourne-based Alpha Fund Managers appointed OC to help deliver long-term capital growth by investing in Australian and New Zealand companies with a market capitalisation ...

The challenge of finding true active management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... achieve," Hall said. Third, he added, it's important to consider how portfolio managers are paid: whether on revenue or alpha generated. As Hall put it: "None of our portfolio managers are paid to gather assets." Finally, he said, investors have to consider ...

Industry stars recognised at 2017 MAX Awards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... Complexity' promos. The Investment Product of the Year award went to J.P. Morgan Asset Management for the JPMorgan Systematic Alpha Fund. J.P. Morgan Asset Management head of Australia funds David Halifax accepted the award, stating: "Winning this award ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... that at Boston Partners. "That's the power of continuity and consistency in investments. Typically you end up with so many alpha dogs and people with ego and money and issues, and they flop around so much. We've had the same people, we grow analysts ...

Global asset management fees continue to fall

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... are under tougher scrutiny than ever and investors are increasingly reluctant to pay inflated fees for betas dressed up as alpha," bfinance director, Australia, Frithjof van Zyp said. "What our research has shown is that fees are responding to a new ...

ASX creates more opportunities for investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... fast growing, high tech industries that have traditionally been hard to get exposure to in Australia. This is providing alpha opportunities to local retail investors and fund managers alike." In 2016, the ASX completed 118 IPOs, compared to 84 on the ...

Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... King Irving Sura Pacific Alliance Fund - a long-only, benchmark and geography agnostic fund that has full conviction and is alpha driven. It is run in conjunction with Australian-based King Irving Funds Management. In Australia last week to meet with ...

Global economy biased toward active management

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... research by global asset manager Natixis found. Eight in ten (79%) investors said they favour active managers to help generate alpha in this current environment mired by low yields, China market woes and geopolitical events. About all (95%) of the 200 ...