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Super trustees get a handle on retirement income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... features of various products, but a rigorous, member-centric assessment of the outcomes generated by each, and a quantitative comparison of these outcomes across different product types. However a key obstacle to undertaking this assessment has been ...

Neuberger Berman launches global equities fund in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... for Australian investors. The trust gives investors access to an equities portfolio managed by Neuberger Berman's quantitative investment team that encompasses developed and emerging markets. It is based on the firm's Systematic Global Equity strategy ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... economies. If the Fed continues to delay lift-off, they'll be the ones forced to act to increase the amount of their quantitative easing programmes, to cheapen their currencies to lift growth and inflation. The same goes for the RBA.

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... where you gradually turn up the heat. They'll boil us slowly," he said. We're just starting to feel the effects of quantitative tightening in the world with the change of the major foreign exchange reserve policies of three major nations. After the initial ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... always QE. As 'The Economist' magazine explains in its 7 September blog titled, "How China's cash injections add up to quantitative squeezing" (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/09/china-s-economy), the PBOC's balance sheet has been declining ...

BetaShares grows distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... intermediaries and institutional clients. Smyth's hire follows the recent appointments of Thomas Reif as head of quantitative research and portfolio manager; Matthew Reeves as compliance manager; Sarah Hare as marketing manager; David Whitby as account ...

Tempo gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... noted the experience of Tempo's investment team, which has a significant track record in developing and managing quantitative investment strategies, previously at BT Investment Management. Tempo's Global Equity Fund is an active investment strategy that ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Global quantitative manager PanAgora Asset Management will bring its institutional funds management capabilities to the Australian retail market through an agreement struck with Pengana Capital. The deal expands Pengana's investment solutions with a ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at its coming policy meeting in September." Sounds familiarly like the opening line of my ...

Cameron Harrison added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... (UK) or the S&P 1500 Composite Index (US). The investment team at Cameron Harrison's investment process uses both quantitative and qualitative assessment frameworks to provide investors with exposure to a collection of well-run businesses. The model ...