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AXA IM targets under-researched stocks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... generally stocks with less coverage experience greater excess return," McDonald said. "The relation between liquidity and alpha is even stronger. Within value, we see a direct relation between low liquidity and alpha," she continued. While small caps ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Prior to that he was the director of implemented solutions at QIC and he was responsible for managing its external manager alpha program. Victoria Vodolazschi has been appointed in New York City and will focus on long/ short equity, macro and systematic ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... getting a large exposure of their portfolios to passive strategies and they come to active managers and boutiques looking for alpha," he said. REST chief executive Damian Hill explained: "We don't turn over managers that much and we try not to have too ...

Senior fund manager leaves AMP Capital for Ausbil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... to our management capabilities," Xiradis said. Pandit commented: "I am delighted to be joining Ausbil. Its philosophy of alpha generation and capital preservation for its clients resonates very well with me. Ausbil is one of the strongest equity boutiques ...

AB fund receives Lonsec rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... consistent and competitive investment returns," said AB Australia chief executive Jen Driscoll. In August, Infocus-owned Alpha Fund Managers became the initial investor in the AB fund, adding it to its multi-manager portfolio. At the time, Infocus managing ...

Lazard launches new alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... this year from Henderson Global Investors, where he was lead portfolio manager of both the Henderson Horizon Pan-European Alpha Fund and the Alphagen Tucana Fund. "The nascent European recovery offers an attractive backdrop for investors, but remains ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... for institutions is how they decide to spend their fee budget: "You can go for active fund managers and try to increase alpha, or you can pay less for alpha and spend more on risk management." The rise and fall of the benchmark Benchmarks started to ...

AB appoints regional manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... As reported in Financial Standard, AB's Global Equities and Managed Volatility Equities funds were recently added to the Alpha Fund Managers portfolio and Macquarie Wrap respectively.

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Forum are the rise and implications of alternative beta and big data, the future of hedge fund research, the prospects for alpha generation and the outlook for CTAs.

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... for the next 15," Trafford-Walker said. "The message used to be from the managers that we have this skill, we can get you alpha and if you pay us we'll let you share the alpha. "Members are the ones who take the risk and they ought to get their fair ...