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Sydney Alternative Investment Week to return in September

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... Investment Awards and Hedge Funds Rock, with more intimate, specialist gatherings covering topics such as private credit, quantitative investing, manager incubation, and family office investing. The Alternative Future Foundation has named Financial Standard ...

Alternatives stable pushes Navigator assets higher

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... how it holds up in moments of stress. "At the moment, we have some strategies performing extremely well, like our quantitative strategies and our macro strategies and others that may not be doing as well because their investment climate was perhaps more ...

Rest Super loses investment risk lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... quant team. Leck has also worked as a senior investment risk analyst at Vanguard Investments Australia and a senior quantitative analyst at Queensland Treasury Corporation. "After a highly enjoyable and educational stint at Rest, I will be taking some ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... and passive managers. "We have about 60% in what we call 'enhanced passive managers', which are lower risk quantitative managers looking to outperform by a smaller amount and use quantitative tools to do that," he said. "The enhanced passive ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... moves are departures. Evidentia has made fresh appointments of its own, bringing in Pierre-Hedzer Marchi as head of quantitative investments and Josh Phillips as senior asset consultant. In a week of musical chairs, the firm has also appointed Chris ...

Super spending calls BFID compliance into question

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... performance wasn't measured against the original stated metrics in an agreement. It also found poor use and adoption of quantitative metrics, despite needing to measure financial outcomes for members. Most concerningly, APRA said some RSEs had not revisited ...

RQI Investors launches new strategy with UniSuper backing

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
UniSuper has seeded a new fund from RQI Investors, First Sentier Investors' quantitative manager. The RQI Australian Diversified Alpha Long Short Fund has been introduced for institutional and select wholesale investors, receiving a $500 million seed ...

Evidentia announces two new starters

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... and advice to our partner Private Wealth firms." A second starter, Pierre-Hedzer Marchi,has also joined as head of quantitative Investments.He held a similar role at AMP for the last five years. The hire strengthens Evidentia's investment consulting ...

Fidelity International launches first global equity SMA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... equities. The SMA employs the firm's proprietary systematic investment process, informed by both fundamental and quantitative research, alongside integrated risk management. It's managed by a research and portfolio management team that includes Sydney-based ...

Financial Standard names Investment Manager of the Year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... stress," Rainmaker said. To identify strategies that meet this criteria, Financial Standard and Rainmaker developed a quantitative data-driven methodology to find which investment managers persistently demonstrated an ability to deliver investment outcomes ...