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Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... do not follow unpredictable random walks. Its flagship managed futures fund boasts a 120-man team comprising a mixture of PhD post-grads and professors from a diverse range of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, climatology, actuarial science ...

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... original trade signal. This leads to significant losses that appear to outweigh the benefits of reduced transaction costs," CMCRC PhD candidate from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management Zhe Chen said. "Related to this, the research suggests that ...

Superannuation Research Cluster makes two appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... that both these people have the enthusiasm and right skills for the job. "The skill that Kassenboehmer has accumulated in her PhD studies and in the labour-market related research she has been involved with at the Melbourne Institute over the past two ...

Brokers tip stocks ahead of public announcement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... before the public release of the analyst reports in the study conducted by Professor Andrew Lepone, Dr. Jin Boon Wong and PhD candidate Ming Ying Lim. According to CMCRC, this evidence suggested that analysts were giving stock recommendations to clients ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... brainiacs to unearth more reliable returns. Its flagship managed futures fund boasts a 120-man team comprising a mixture of PhD post-grads and professors from a diverse range of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, climatology, actuarial science ...

Towers Watson appoints new director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... intellectual capital and employee surveys, Hall is a regular speaker at client seminars and industry conferences. He also has a PhD in psychology from the University of Melbourne. "Dr Hall has significant experience leading many large engagement survey ...

Senior departures at Acadian

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... capabilities was minor as it was a quant fund. "It has a heavily integrated computer trading strategy, where they have 15 PhD holders and 21 CFA charter holders as part of the research process," he said. "So they are losing two people out of a 36 to ...

RBF appoints CIO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... Melbourne from 2005 to 2009. In 2010 he undertook a consultancy assignment for Acorn Capital Ltd. He holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in applied mathematics and is currently studying towards an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management. ...

Matrix appoints practice development manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... manager role with AXA Financial Services. Shao is a published author who holds a Masters of Business Administration from AGSM, a PhD in Applied Finance from ANU and both a masters and mathematics degree from Tianjin University, China.

Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... with the premise "How do retail and institutional investors choose their investments?" According to Jacquelyn Humphrey, a PhD student at the University of Queensland Business School and author of the report, mum-and-dad investors tend to focus on relative ...