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S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... economy's SOS by supplying lotsa lotsa greenbacks. Yes I know, I know. Everybody's still debating whether the Fed's quantitative easing worked. FOMC voting member Charles Plosser's remarks about debt ceiling could also apply to QE3. "It could be very ...

Lonsec research head exits for Morningstar

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... promoted to head up the Lonsec investment consulting team. On August 1, Anh Nguyen joins the research house as a quantitative analyst. On June 9, Zurich sold Lonsec to Financial Research Holdings (FRH). Jason Clarke, managing director, FRH, said the ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
Hints of a third round of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... its April forecast of 3.1 to 3.3 per cent. This week, markets will face the conclusion of the Fed's second round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2, which has seen the Fed pump $US600 billion ($A571.32 billion) into the US economy since November to aid ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... 2011. Dr Bernanke had lowered the growth outlook and raised the unemployment forecast without hinting at any more quantitative easing, IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said. "The US markets were higher heading into his press conference, but they ended ...

Axioma branches out

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... the banking crisis in the early eighties," said d'Assier. "The major universities of Australia have been teaching quantitative techniques for more than two decades, making the Australian quant community one of the most sophisticated in the world. This ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... considerations an integral component of their investment process," said Neil Detering, head of GBST Quant. GBST Quant is a quantitative data services business that delivers after-tax investment analysis. "We're seeing increased demand for after-tax solutions ...

MTAA awards triple equities mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... Ankura Capital is a BNY Mellon owned investment boutique with a long only Australian equities strategy based on a quantitative model. As of March 31, MTAA had $1.3 billion, or 22 per cent, of its fund invested in Australian equities and $806 million ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... function of the interest rate differential with US rates kept artificially low, than the money-printing involved in quantitative easing since much of that stayed locked up on bank balance sheets. Eisinger said he expected commodity prices to top out ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... recommended" in the review, including the Aberdeen International Equity Fund which was upped from recommended. Only one quantitative fund made the top grade, which was Arrowstreet Global Equity Fund. Newly released boutique fund IFP Global Franchise ...