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Industry stars recognised at 2017 MAX Awards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... BlackRock - BlackRock Smart Beta Legg Mason - Legg Mason Australia Advertising Campaign PIMCO - PIMCO Income Solutions Robeco - Up and Running Integrated Campaign of the Year Zurich - It's a Better Life Finalists Desktop Broker - mFunds Campaign Fidelity ...

Tasplan awards $265m equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Industry super fund Tasplan awarded a $265 million mandate to an international asset manager. Robeco, bringing its aggregate Australian assets under management to about $2.5 billion, will manage the Tasplan funds in its enhanced low-volatility Global ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

HESTA sharpens focus on factor investing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... international asset manager championing factor investing. Members of the industry fund will benefit from the expertise of Robeco, implementing its QI Global Value Equities strategy. "We were looking for a cost effective way to access factor risk premia. ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
The value of a business in the global investable universe can be reduced to "three circles," according to Robeco Boston Partners portfolio manager Joshua Jones. In Sydney to discuss Robeco's Boston Partners Global Premium Equities Fund, Jones described ...

Westpac tops S&P ESG index

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
Westpac has been determined the financial services industry leader in the S&P Dow Jones global sustainability benchmark. The S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Indices annual review, developed in partnership with RobecoSAM, showed that Westpac comfortably ...

Robeco appoints sales manager from Goldman Sachs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
Robeco Australia has appointed a new regional sales manager. Sam Besley joins Robeco's Melbourne office from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he was a key account manager. Prior to that, he was a business development manager at Fidelity Worldwide ...

NZ Super seeks factor investing strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... most interested in low risk and value factors. This plays in to the hands of asset managers such as Northern Trust and Robeco after both marketed factor-based investment strategies in Australia last month. NZ Super Fund manager investment analysis, Dr ...

Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
Building on the current interest in multi-factor investing in equity markets, Robeco is now designing bespoke multi-factor credit solutions for institutional clients in Australia. In this low growth, low interest rate world, factor investing is being ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
Two global asset managers were in Australia recently with the aim of spreading their message about trends in impact investing and its suitability for institutional investors. Sustainability specialist at RobecoSAM Private Equity, Silva Dezelan, said ...