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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Fed's policy committee decided to cut a further $US10 billion from the US cental bank's monthly bond-buying, known as quantitative easing (QE), and maintain its "highly accommodative" monetary policy of record-low interest rates. Policymakers added in ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... Reuters concluded that, "...the economy remains fragile and many economists expect the central bank to restart its quantitative easing asset purchases of provide other stimulus soon after former Canadian central bank chief takes Mark Carney takes over ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... here. We got here through the kindness of the world's biggest central banks - ZIRP (zero interest rate policy), QE (quantitative easing) and now... NIRP (negative interest rate policy).... and this kindness looks set to go on and on... and on. The Fed ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... further while managers continue to collect above average fees. Kabiller said that investors also need to be wary that quantitative models often lead hedge managers to the same answers creating a herd mentality. "Investors who educate themselves and embrace ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... relevant to the profession. The three-level exam process covers topics including Ethical and Professional Standards, Quantitative Methods, Economics, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Finance, Investment Tools, Asset Classes, and Portfolio ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... rates was highlighted in May and June last year when hints that the Federal Reserve was looking at an early exit from quantitative easing sparked a 100 basis point spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. While there are a number of approaches available ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... flight to safety due to headline news in Europe, the South China Sea, the Middle East and Africa. It's the result of quantitative easing. The end of quantitative easing will be a disaster. I think it's weird, but we ought to know by now that the markets ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... potential while limiting downside risk," Catholic Super chief investment officer Garrie Lette said. The Fund builds on quantitative and fundamental company-level research with the aim of exploiting the "low-volatility anomaly", or the tendency-as shown ...

Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... the second interview stage of the recruitment process for finding his replacement. Winton uses a highly scientific quantitative investment strategy founded on the principle that markets are inefficient and price movements do not follow unpredictable ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... in the surprising (and well-documented) portion SMSFs allocate to cash: 30%, according to Rainmaker. This paints a quantitative picture of Aussie investors as rather a traditional lot who will stick with what they know regardless of whether or not it ...