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Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... reasons. They might not be bothered having an emerging markets small caps strategy, for example." Walsh said Acadian's quantitative approach to investment - what he calls the 'systematic application of good ideas' - brings a great deal of flexibility ...

Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... commodity cycle. "For instance, 2011 saw the high tide for commodities coincide with strong liquidity flows from quantitative easing. This was ideal for the north-west bloc, with both the Brazilian real and Australian dollar reaching their peak values," ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Industry fund-sponsored organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing a Fed thing - announce quantitative easing measures - that markets expected, but it's good enough... for now. European equities rose to a six-and-half year high ...

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... few months," he said. The success of emerging markets is partly attributable to a combination of cheap money and quantitative easing pumping liquidity into the system. Cheap funding freed emerging market central banks to relax their fiscal policies and ...

Alphinity fund gets rating upgrade from Zenith

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... the Fund HIGHLY RECOMMENDED," the research report said. "Zenith believes the consideration of both qualitative and quantitative analysis has the Fund well positioned to capitalise on mispricing opportunities across the full market cycle." ASF has returned ...

Allan Gray Australian Equity Fund highly recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... investment approach." Investment ideas for the $774 million fund are initially generated through the use of a computerised quantitative screen for metrics including long-term return on equity, long-term total net asset value growth, long-term revenue ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... his mathematical and statistics degree, he was soon able to get a job as derivatives analyst and, from there, to quantitative investment analysis. "I had to come up with techniques that investors could employ to make their portfolios better, and to make ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... QE. Super Mario said so. In his interview with Dutch daily De Telegraaf, ECB President Mario Draghi declared that quantitative easing (QE) is "indeed possible within our mandate, namely if the purchases are aimed at ensuring price stability". We all ...