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BetaShares appoints CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... senior investment product specialist at nabInvest. At the same time, Thomas Reif has taken on the role of head of quantitative research and portfolio manager. He was most recently a portfolio manager at State Street Global Advisers and has also held ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... premium will increase are the "normalisation" of monetary policy following the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing programs. Other drivers are investors' demand for higher compensation to counter illiquidity caused by increased regulation ...

Neuberger Berman appoints manager from JPM

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... new local unit trust for its Systematic Global Equity strategy, which is managed by Wai Lee and Neuberger Berman's Quantitative Investment Group. "We expect to continue to selectively introduce additional Neuberger Berman strategies to the Australian ...

New video series demystifies hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... concepts from the world of hedge funds. The short videos have been made for Man subsidiary AHL, which is focused on quantitative investing in the managed futures market. Narrated by Man AHL's chief scientist and academic liaison, Dr Anthony Ledford ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Gallagher is a statistician and policy modeller specialising in retirement incomes and population ageing. He has overseen quantitative analysis of Commonwealth social and economic policies since 1975. At ISA he will concentrate on the adequacy, fairness ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... fund managers never seem to agree on Europe. Is it the biggest investment opportunity since the United States under quantitative easing? Or is it just too messy, too complex, too risky? The political risk When anti-austerity party Siryza won the Greek ...

Australia's "irrational exuberance" an economic risk: PIMCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... at rising household debt in Australia and the implications for policy' said. Portfolio manager Aaditya Thakur and quantitative research analyst Laura Ryan expressed concern that Australian households "will react faster and more vigorously to a shock ...

4 Corners hires ahead of infrastructure fund launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... Jones was responsible for coverage of infrastructure, utilities and transport companies. He previously worked as a quantitative developer with UBS in Zurich, Switzerland. 4 Corners Infrastructure was launched earlier this year as a joint initiative between ...

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... and bond markets fell sharply. Some global financial institutions were intervened by governments, others collapsed. Quantitative easing (QE) started in the United States, while the rest of the world braced against unemployment and negative growth. While ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... cannot compete with QE-ing central banks. Is Ben suggesting what I think he's suggesting? "I'm pretty confident [quantitative easing programs] have been effective, and, at least so far, they haven't had many of the bad side-effects that people were saying ...