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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 ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... particularly concerning as this eventuated amidst a backdrop of rising company profits aided by the BOJ's qualitative and quantitative easing policy (QQE) that depreciated the Japanese yen vis-A -vis its competition. Business investment dropped by 1.3% ...

Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... said that under direct questioning at the committee's inquiry, Rowell conceded that "it is very difficult to put any quantitative measure" on the benefits that she was asserting.

Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... with new team members expected to specialise in research, retirement outcome modeling, investment operations and quantitative research. Mine Wealth + Wellbeing chief investment officer David Bell said the fund will not be internalising its asset management ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... on long/ short equity. His previous role was at International Asset Management, where he researched and conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis on a broad range of hedge fund strategies and assisted in managing bespoke client portfolios that ...