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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 ...

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 ...