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OC partners for micro-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... under-researched companies at the smaller end of the market," OC head of investments Robert Frost. "It can be challenging to generate alpha among larger, more mature companies which are heavily researched and many of our clients had been asking for a ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... putting pressure on asset managers' profit margins - and may mean the industry has reached its peak. In a recent Lipper Alpha Insight discussion, Financial Conduct Authority technical specialist - investment management Jeremy Beckwith posed the "peak ...

Finding economic winners in an unpredictable world

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
Investors who try and predict macroeconomics as a source of alpha rather than focusing on long term trends will suffer in the long term. AXA Investment Managers' head of Framlington Equities, Asia, Mark Tinker told the Financial Standard Chief Economists ...

Aussie firms join gender index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... concerned with managing operational risks and attracting and retaining staff. "As investors look for new drivers of risk-aware alpha, the demand for data around gender equality and other social and governance metrics continues to grow. The BFGEI brings ...

Instos must stress test: Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... offering relatively unattractive risk-return trade off. Instead, investors should seek returns via a diversified mix of alpha sources, with asset-backed securities and private lending presenting opportunities. Elsewhere, long-term social forces such ...

Alpha generation to trump in 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... correlations across stocks and bonds." "This is critical for fundamentally-based managers, like stock pickers, that can demonstrate alpha generation on both sides of their portfolios," he explained. He added that 50 South, which is Northern Trust's wholly-owned ...

AMP Capital infrastructure platform secures US$2.4b

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... Australia, Spain and Finland. The fund has a portfolio of infrastructure assets including Newcastle Airport, Angel Trains and Alpha Trains, and Thames Water. Over the last 12 months it added four new assets including: US underground parking system Millennium ...

Tribeca expands natural resources investment team

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... experience to the role. The entire Tribeca team will benefit from the appointments, and the Smaller Companies Fund, the Alpha Plus Fund and the Global Total Return Fund will also draw on resources and content from this team." Tribeca has been expanding ...

Software provider signs four Aussie hedge funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
An international cloud-based software provider will expand into Australia via four newly-signed hedge fund clients. Driven by the demand for affordable, institutional quality integrated OMS and PMS software, Singapore-based AlphaDesk began actively ...

Investment managers must find purpose, not performance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... industry they will make it easier for everything within our ecosystem to find new ways of flourishing, new ways of capturing alpha," President and chief executive officer at the CFA Institute, Paul Smith, said. In Australia, 75% of respondents cited ...