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Equity benchmarks too risky amid volatility: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... volatility. In the company's active Australian equities Annual Review and Outlook 2015/2016, SSGA's head of active quantitative equity for Asia Pacific, Olivia Engel and senior portfolio manager Toby Warburton said events since the beginning of the year ...

Tribeca creates new investment role

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... Boronia Capital where he was a research scientist focused on automated trading strategies. "Peter comes with excellent quantitative skills and an ability to manage very large data sets in conjunction with sophisticated quantitative modelling. He has ...

Frontier appoints two analysts

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... Advisors has expanded its analyst team with two new appointments. James Chang joins Frontier from Lonsec, where he was a quantitative research analyst, specialising in quantitative models, IT support and fund manager due diligence. Brandon Roddis, meanwhile ...

Robeco fund added to HUB24 platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... because of its ability to "capture global equity returns with less risk," adding that it uses "Robeco's proprietary quantitative method based on award-winning research, which exploits the low-risk anomaly - aiming to maximise the sharpe ratio."

AB wins industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... in multi-manager portfolios without reducing the potential to generate alpha. The service applies a "disciplined quantitative process" combining AB's proprietary risk and alpha models. It aims to reduce the impact of unintended common exposures and asset ...

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... from institutions in this type of strategy." As returns in other yield generating assets have been suppressed by quantitative easing, Super funds have broadened their horizons in the search for returns. At the same time, Schwartz said new investors are ...

Man Diversified Alternatives recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... uncorrelated to traditional asset classes. Zenith rated a universe of 19 multi strategy funds based on a range of quantitative metrics. Its investment committee then provides a qualitative overlay that takes into account the structure of the manager's ...

New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... in the market for an alternatives fund which meets most investors' needs. More than two decades of investment in quantitative research and development and in implementation technology has led CFM to the observation that a class of quantitative investment ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... its distribution team ahead of the launch of its Global Equities Market Neutral Fund, built in partnership with US quantitative manager PanAgora Asset Manager. At the same time, Ironbark Asset Management partnered with London-based Waverton Investment ...

HESTA awards low volatility mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... equities strategy is a great fit for superannuation funds such as HESTA. "The strategy uses Robeco's proprietary quantitative method based on award-winning research, which exploits the low-risk anomaly - aiming to maximise the sharpe ratio." In September ...