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Altius flags key appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... Global Asset Management. Before CFSGAM, Wong was a portfolio manager at Commonwealth Investment Management and a quantitative analyst, equity strategies at Citigroup Asset Management. Altius also appointed Jing Jia as an assistant portfolio manager. ...

XTB appoints new CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... tailored fixed income model portfolios and separately managed account solutions. "Incorporating both qualitative and quantitative techniques, Ian has already successfully designed a range of fixed income model portfolios. His portfolios seek to optimise ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

MetLife raises bar on group insurance awareness

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... to be informed when asked, 'what is it?' and 'how much?' Further to the campaign, MetLife is currently undertaking quantitative research to determine members' level of knowledge behind insurance within their super. Stewart added: "One in five Australian ...

SSGA ramps tech exposure post-Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... companies in its Global Equity Fund, even if said exposure still trails the cap-weighted index. SSGA global active quantitative equities chief investment officer Olivia Engel said the tech companies it's focusing on are generally mature, with strong ...

HESTA sharpens focus on factor investing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... investors as a means to generate returns in the current low growth, low interest rate world. Factor investing is a quantitative strategy providing exposures to risk premia, which research shows to have consistently outperformed over the long-term. These ...

Fund managers on fixed income recruitment drive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
Both AMP Capital and Vanguard are ramping fixed income capabilities with new hires and job listings. On April 26, Andrea Jaehne joined AMP Capital as senior credit analyst, financials. She reports to acting head of credit Steven Hur, and will focus ...

Investment manager appoints head of machine learning

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... clients and, as the amount of data available continues to expand, these techniques can supplement existing rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis." Ferreira joins Man GLG from Florin Court Capital where he acted as senior quantitative researcher. ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... has felt this influence more than anywhere else, while it has not been as pronounced in Australia," Tepeli says. Quantitative equity investing gained notoriety thanks to its strong performance throughout the Global Financial Crisis, with good, risk-adjusted ...

Family office manager expands

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... Australian market and managed a portfolio focused on credit and convertible bonds. Atrium's new head of risk and quantitative research is David Toohey. He was previously an investment director at BlueSky Alternative Investments for two years. Toohey ...