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Advice beats alpha as retirement income source

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Financial advice, and not investment alpha, is what ultimately delivers better retirement incomes for superannuation fund members, SuperEd co-founder Jeremy Duffield said. "Advice can make a bigger difference to retirement income than investment management," ...

OneVue sees growth in RE services

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... "We believe this demand for alternative products is firmly linked to market volatility and investors seeking lower risk, alpha style opportunities, whilst investing outside of Australia has been driven by attractive opportunities and valuations in certain ...

New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... since the development of reliable, systematic implementation technologies. In short, many hedge fund managers are charging alpha fees for beta return sources that can be harvested cheaply. Furthermore, alternative beta strategies ask questions of traditional ...

Pengana aims to lead global small cap groundswell

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... of choices, the value-add we provide is to target a small number of out-sized opportunities that will deliver a very high alpha return over time that is prima facie of where active management should operate."

Appetite for international shares up 50% with major broker

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
CommSec, Australia's largest online broker, has seen a sharp increase in demand for foreign owned shares. The number of customers opening up international trading accounts has grown almost 50% in the past six months, compared to the preceding half year ...

Aberdeen Australian equities fund upgraded

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... exposures. "There are some compelling reasons for investing outside the top 20 Australian stocks. Our research shows that alpha potential for active Australian equity managers increases when you exclude the largest 20 companies from the ASX 300 index. ...

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 ...