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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 ...

ESG risk tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... factors, such as carbon regulation, water stressed regions, and corruption risks. It will also provide additional quantitative data and binary metrics to enable institutional investors to measure the overall exposure of companies and portfolios to ESG ...

Japanese businesses have sunnier mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... that the BOJ was also looking at a Tankan reading of plus 12 (December quarter 2015) when it decided to expand its Quantitative and Qualitative Easing policy ( QQE) into "QQE with a negative interest rate" policy.

Aussie investors push tobacco exclusions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... or financial services, it's technology that is now finally kicking this angle," he said. "Whether it's different quantitative strategies or robo-advisers or other metrics, it's a natural cleansing process. It's great ground-shaking turmoil but it's totally ...

BTIM builds out multi-asset team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... Prior to that, in addition to his senior role at JANA Partners, he was an investment banking associate at CSFB and a quantitative analyst at Lehman Brothers. BTIM chief executive Emilio Gonzalez said Caputo is a "highly regarded and talented US-based ...

Robo-advice portfolios benefiting from quant factors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Returns from thematic robo-advice portfolios can be boosted by using quantitative metrics that won't increase investors' risk, according to digital investment solutions company Quantifeed. In its whitepaper, Designing thematic indices with a quantitative ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN  |   12:33PM
Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA  |   11:56AM
Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:09AM
The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:20PM
MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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