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New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... vanilla" market, the Financial Times reported. The aims of the policy are twofold: help Japan's deflation busting quantitative easing programme and further Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth programme by investing in companies that increase workers' ...

Platypus Asset Management announces CIO's departure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... the role of chief executive officer. Prasad Patkar and Peter Brooke have also been promoted to the role of head of quantitative investments. Commenting on the announcements Mead said: "We are extremely grateful for Donald's vision and leadership over ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... solutions. As part of a recent Australian visit, Northern Trust Asset Management senior vice president and director of quantitative research Mike Hunstad said institutional investors are now more interested in implementing a factor that's customised ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... assured and promised - the BOJ still has plenty of options to ease policy and will act if it becomes necessary. "The quantitative easing, the qualitative easing, the negative interest rate - these are the three dimensions where we can act." Kuroda san ...

Ethics and income not incompatible: Martin Currie

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... higher-than-market-average dividend in the next 12 months, meet quality/risk criteria from both a fundamental and quantitative perspective, have appropriate levels of debt and have adequate liquidity and size." Going beyond that, the research argued ...

Oxford-Man Institute expands into machine learning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... see OMI appoint two new senior research fellows/associate professors in machine learning with a specific focus on quantitative finance. Commenting on the expansion Anthony Ledford, Man AHL's Chief Scientist and Academic Liaison, said: "Man AHL has been ...

Acadian appoints VP

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... tax-effective income strategies. Mehra was previously a portfolio manager at Macquarie Funds Group. Prior to this he was at quantitative analyst with both Macquarie Funds Group and Citigroup in Sydney. Commenting on the appointment, Acadian Australia ...

Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... institutional investors as one of the few remaining ways to eke out a return. Explained simply, factor investing is a quantitative strategy providing exposures to risk premia which academic research has shown to have persistently outperformed over the ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... said once again, that the RBA has done what the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - with their quantitative easing and negative interest rates -- could only aspire to... a lower currency to boost growth and defeat deflation. Perhaps ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... spend, Milligan suggests. "Policy makers around the world are debating whether the normal rules of interest rates and quantitative easing have come to an end," he continued. "Of course monetary policy can do more but if it is going to we need to start ...