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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 ...

Time is up for the static portfolio mix: JPMAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... continuing to fall, Bilton said investors should also be looking to harvest risk premia from their portfolios and turn that into alpha and returns. "Our argument is that since there's risk premia out there to be caught it really is just beholden upon ...

AMG CEO says alpha is all about people

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... billion Affiliated Managers Group, Sean Healey, says the secret to his firm's success was recognising people and culture drive alpha generation. Healey, who joined AMG in 1995 from Goldman Sachs, was visiting Sydney to celebrate the 10th anniversary ...

Active winning out in down markets: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... ability to mitigate losses. "If we are indeed entering a lower return environment, those active managers who can generate alpha and manage risk on the downside will differentiate themselves, but only if investors are willing to give them time."

EM currencies potential alpha source

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... in the late 1990s and 2000s, the majority of EMD managers are underweight this segment, providing substantial scope for alpha. Osses believes the bias toward EMD hard currency is unjustified as, while it may be the most popular, it is also the most mature ...