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FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
As the old saying goes, 'you've got to spend money to make money.' And, as equity markets continue their strong run and global uncertainty calms, geared strategies have been making a comeback. But for those thinking a geared strategy is a good way to ...

Trust key to client satisfaction in advice: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... "Advisers who focus on these are best placed to deliver the most impactful outcomes." Further, Honeycomb head of quantitative strategy Jason Morris, who helped compile the research, found that trust and fee transparency have slowly emerged as two of ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... investment strategy and risk. While he has been acting in the role for several months, Bowden was also portfolio manager, quantitative. Also in the investment strategy and risk function, Alex Oswald and Madeline Cool have been promoted to senior investment ...

Sydney Alternative Investment Week to return in September

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... Investment Awards and Hedge Funds Rock, with more intimate, specialist gatherings covering topics such as private credit, quantitative investing, manager incubation, and family office investing. The Alternative Future Foundation has named Financial Standard ...

Alternatives stable pushes Navigator assets higher

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... how it holds up in moments of stress. "At the moment, we have some strategies performing extremely well, like our quantitative strategies and our macro strategies and others that may not be doing as well because their investment climate was perhaps more ...

Rest Super loses investment risk lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... quant team. Leck has also worked as a senior investment risk analyst at Vanguard Investments Australia and a senior quantitative analyst at Queensland Treasury Corporation. "After a highly enjoyable and educational stint at Rest, I will be taking some ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... and passive managers. "We have about 60% in what we call 'enhanced passive managers', which are lower risk quantitative managers looking to outperform by a smaller amount and use quantitative tools to do that," he said. "The enhanced passive ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... moves are departures. Evidentia has made fresh appointments of its own, bringing in Pierre-Hedzer Marchi as head of quantitative investments and Josh Phillips as senior asset consultant. In a week of musical chairs, the firm has also appointed Chris ...

Super spending calls BFID compliance into question

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... performance wasn't measured against the original stated metrics in an agreement. It also found poor use and adoption of quantitative metrics, despite needing to measure financial outcomes for members. Most concerningly, APRA said some RSEs had not revisited ...

RQI Investors launches new strategy with UniSuper backing

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
UniSuper has seeded a new fund from RQI Investors, First Sentier Investors' quantitative manager. The RQI Australian Diversified Alpha Long Short Fund has been introduced for institutional and select wholesale investors, receiving a $500 million seed ...