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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 ...

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 ...