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Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
The neutral interest rate is the Goldilocks level of the fed funds rate - not too cold that it would continue stimulating growth (and lift inflation) and not too hot that it would cause economic activity to slow. Ho-hum. US Federal Reserve Chairman ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative Risk Premia (SARP), also called Systematic Global Macro, uses three investing factors: value, momentum and carry. Parametric's strategy can be applied to equities, bonds ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
They're no mere mortals, they're three of the 10 highly-qualified and esteemed experts at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) that currently sits as the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. They are Doctors Mark Crosby, Warwick McKibbin and ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... group is also looking at bringing its recently launched hedge fund strategy, the River and Mercantile Systematic Global Macro Fund, to Australian clients.

Former AMEX director joins wealth consultant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... increasing calls for asset owning fiduciaries to integrate greater consideration for extra-financial information to address macro-economic risks such as natural resources scarcity.

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... that not only paints an image of the overall economy, but also informs investors about important trends within the bigger macro-economic picture. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund ...

Global investment bank expands Australian team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... RBC Capital Markets Australian team in Sydney, linking from Soros Fund Management where he currently serves as a senior macro trader. A former head of Japan macro sales at Barclays, Muirhead will report to RBC's head of fixed income, currency and ...

Aussie retail crypto fund flags broker partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... coincidental. "Actually, one of the advantages is that it is uncorrelated to a lot of asset classes right now. You may see some macro pattern emerging at times, but we would not say there's a direct correlation at all," he said.

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
A thematic international investment house partnered with a $110 billion platform to provide access to several separately managed accounts. Praemium has added three themed global share portfolios from Macrovue; the Macroevue Car of the Future Concentrated ...

PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
PIMCO has partnered with a financial technology company to enhance its quantitative research and analytic capabilities into its investment process. Part of the partnership sees PIMCO acquiring a minority stake in cloud-based integrated data and financial ...