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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 ...

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 ...