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Global active equity managers suffer their worst year in decades

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... 'high-growth' managers, moderate growth managers failed to beat the benchmark. The asset consultant also found that quantitative managers stood out as a rare bright spot, benefiting from diversified portfolios and effective risk controls. In the Australian ...

Super moves: VFMC, QIC, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... management in strategic decision-making. She spent the last eight months working at TCorp on contract, carrying out quantitative portfolio modelling and research on defensive and credit assets. Supported by strong economic and investment data analysis ...

Cbus recruits lead for new core equities portfolio

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... domestic fundamental strategy is the next step for Cbus, having in recent years established a suite of fundamental and quantitative internal equities capabilities in domestic and global equities," Gavin stated. "This new strategy has relatively few capacity ...

Anthony Doyle joins Schroders as director

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
... is based in Schroders' Sydney office. He will lead the newly launched Global Equity Alpha strategy and the global Quantitative Equity Products (QEP) strategies, which have attracted over $14 billion of investments from Australian clients. Schroders Australia ...

Quant fund taps new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
The former co-head of equity capital markets at J.P. Morgan has been appointed chief executive of boutique quantitative fund manager East Coast Capital Management (ECCM). Simone Haslinger, the new chief executive, left J.P. Morgan last October after ...

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... manager in Sydney. Daniel Rigney has been appointed as portfolio manager, arriving from Rest Super, where he managed quantitative research. Rigney will play a big role in research, analysis, and development, reporting to the head of capital markets at ...

IFM adds ex-CIO to equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... up at IFM Investors. Roger McIntosh joins the industry fund-backed asset manager as investment director within the quantitative equities team. There he will be responsible for the daily portfolio construction, implementation and factor insight across ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... be difficult to use in practice." For a small number of RSEs, APRA observed differences between their documented quantitative triggers and the triggers actually used in operating the portfolio. "Further, some RSE licensees do not appear to have sufficient ...

Morningstar hires research manager for super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... superannuation research team. As a research manager, he led a team of four research analysts, responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses and benchmarking of super, retirement and investment platform products. Previous roles include ...

Mason Stevens names head of asset allocation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
... Retirement funds. Mason Stevens said Creighton has a robust background in portfolio management, trading, macroeconomic and quantitative research, and risk management. "Brad's experience spans across global hedge funds and leading financial institutions. ...