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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... accelerated in 2Q, posting the strongest quarterly asset growth since the first quarter of 2015, driven by strong quantitative CTA gains on Brexit Friday and broad-based industry wide gains across equity, commodity and currency markets [in reaction] ...

Advisory firm appoints new CIO

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... investments within the wholesale business of UBS Global Asset Management in Australia and co-portfolio manager for a quantitative-based equity income strategy.

CFM alternative beta fund gets Lonsec approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... process, which is both systematic and repeatable. The strategy is well-conceived from both a philosophical and a quantitative research perspective." Further, Lonsec noted that "the Fund is managed by a high quality and experienced investment team which ...

Adviser demand drives XTB offering

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... advisers to manage the direct investment fixed income component of their businesses. The high yield model portfolio is quantitative based with qualitative overlay and consists of at least eight XTBs. The maturity ladder model portfolio aims to provide ...

Asset manager launches quant platform after acquisition

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... global asset manager is leveraging an acquisition of a UK-based firm to launch its new long-only and alternatives quantitative investing platform, as well as diversify its active management capabilities. GAM is buying Cantab Capital Partners with an ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... prompt the Bank of England (BOE) to lower interest rates from the current 0.5% to zero (or below) and/or reintroduce quantitative easing. Other central banks would follow if only to keep their exchange rates competitive. Lucky the RBA still has scope ...

William Blair funds rated positively by SQM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... in-depth fundamental analysis procedure, supplemented by objective scoring input from William Blair's proprietary quantitative models allows for the identification of opportunities and potential risks. "Strong team cohesiveness was also identified as ...

Liquidnet launches new equity algorithms for instos

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... a safe environment in which to trade in size." Commenting on the launch, global head of Liquidnet's execution and quantitative services group Rob Laible said: "Algos are only as good as the liquidity they access, and our Next Gen Algo suite takes advantage ...

Investors face 'radical uncertainty': PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... or even negative policy rates in many countries, the gusher of liquidity administered by major central banks via quantitative easing, and the debt financed investment boom in China and some other emerging market economies." PIMCO's baseline case is that ...

Diversity among ASX companies slowly improves

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... disclosed measurable objectives for improving diversity, but very few companies had set or disclosed transparent quantitative objectives. With most companies setting measurable objectives that involved an action rather than an outcome. Ben Travers, KPMG ...