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Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Rainmaker Data. But a great idea, an obscure philosophy, a chief investment officer with pedigree and the promise to deliver alpha are not enough in a market where the memory of the global financial crisis debacle is still fresh. "There is a lot of interest ...

MTAA and Prime Super buy stake in European trains

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
Whitehelm Capital has invested $110 million in European train leasing company Alpha Trains Holdings on behalf of MTAA Super, Prime Super and a third institutional investor. The infrastructure manager led the majority investment into the junior debt ...

Not over yet for active management

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... explained that the core of the challenge to traditional funds management businesses is that what has always been regarded as 'alpha' is increasingly being redefined into variants of beta, and as investors realise this they are less likely to pay high ...

How to get private equity returns from listed stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Windham's Mark Kritzman and State Street's William Kinlaw and Jason Mao argue that investors can capture the asset class alpha of private equity by using liquid assets such as ETFs to match the sector weights of private equity investors. Kritzman suggests ...

Fixed income offers little equity risk protection: CFM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... returns with a Sharpe ratio greater than 1 then premium fees are appropriate," said Jordan. "But there aren't many genuine alpha funds out there and it's impossible to do at scale."

Parametric grows investment team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... implementation of CPM strategies for our clients and over time in other areas, for example in Parametric's suite of Systematic Alpha products," he said. "This appointment, which follows the appointment of Raewyn Williams as director of research a year ...

Plato hires senior quant analyst from SSgA

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... (SSgA). Dr Jonathan Whiteoak will primarily be responsible for driving research into quantitative stock selection models, alpha generation and portfolio construction. He has over 15 years' investment experience researching Australian, Asian and global ...

Perpetual names new head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... currently the portfolio manager of the Concentrated Equity strategy, the SHARE-PLUS Long-Short strategy and the Pure Equity Alpha strategy and a key leader in the equities business. Skamvougeras first joined Perpetual in 1994 in an operations role, moving ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... yields on Greek 10-year bonds also rose above the symbolic barrier of 10 per cent. Piraeus Bank lost nearly 29 per cent, Alpha Bank was down around 26 per cent and National Bank and Eurobank shed around 25 per cent. Meanwhile the euro dropped to $US1.1342 ...

Perpetual reveals institutional, platform mandates

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... launched limited menu platform offered by a leading wealth management organisation." Similarly, Perpetual's Pure Equity Alpha Fund and Pure Microcap Fund were added to the investment and super accumulator menus of "a key industry platform." Its Direct ...