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Evergreen makes senior hires

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Boutique investment consulting group, Evergreen Consultants, has appointed a director and head of quantitative analysis in response to the growing demand for its services. Bronwyn Skinner has joined Evergreen Consultants as a director. She has extensive ...

Omega hires Vanguard, NAB vets

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... appointed a portfolio manager and an investment research analyst. Prior to Omega, portfolio manager Evelyne Meier was a quantitative analyst at Triple 3 Investment Management and a senior analyst at Vanguard. Omega co-founder Mathew McCrum said of Evelyne ...

Multi-asset expectations fall: Zenith

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Investment managers are reducing their return expectation across a broad range of asset classes as quantitative easing and other interventionist policies continue to have an impact on investment markets. Zenith Investment Partners' latest Multi Asset ...

Investors must look to dividend yield over growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... growth strategies, including perceived levels of capital and income payment risk. Conducted by AXA IM's fundamental quantitative equity manager Rosenberg Equities, the research shows that traditional sources of income are unlikely to remain sustainable ...

Instos should reconsider hedging strategies: PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... without reducing the expected return of the portfolio. According to co-author of the research paper, vice president and quantitative research analyst at PIMCO, Laura Ryan, the research shows how this sort of strategy is more efficient than common practices ...

Legg Mason, AB funds highly recommended

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... and some income, including franked Australian dividend income. Lonsec said it considered the fund's blend of global quantitative process with a fundamental overlay to be suitably designed to capitalise on the 'low volatility' and 'quality' market anomalies ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... at home, they are also beggaring their neighbours. Yes Virginia, they're called "QE's" or "LTRO's" or "OMT's" or Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" or "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... "worse than Marxism." The original paper, spearheaded by Bernstein Investment Research and Management head of global quantitative strategy and European equity strategy Inigo Fraser-Jenkins, argued that "a supposedly capitalist economy where the only ...

Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... which took in the full market cycle from the top of the bull market, through the GFC and on through the subsequent quantitative easing-led recovery. Backed by an initial investment from their old boss David Paradice, Mitchell and Ng now have complete ...

Machine learning to revolutionise investing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... significantly, and will continue to do so, as it involves bigger and more complex data sets. "The rise of machine learning in quantitative investing is powered by three separate revolutions: the growth in computing power, the explosion of data generation ...