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ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... their rankings for both one-year, three-year and five-year performance. A Morningstar spokesman said the ratings were quantitative and that the ratings house always points out that a high-star rating alone is not a sufficient basis for an investment ...

Invesco switches quant team to value, ratings on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... ratings agency has not yet covered. It will take over the management of the fund next Monday from Invesco's in-house quantitative strategies team. Mick O'Brien, chief executive of Invesco, said today that it was understandable that S&P would want to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... tomorrow night and any further news from the board of the US Federal Reserve with regards to QE2 (its second round of quantitative easing). "Certainly, a slightly weaker oil price is not helping the scenario for energy stocks, but on the other hand we ...

Brookvine to drive BCS equities distribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... implement that systematically. It's a combination of a traditional qualitative approach to individual companies with quantitative portfolio construction," said Herlihy. BCS was formed in 2007, bringing together Herlihy and John Bowers, both former fund ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... commodity prices, in particular the spike in the prices of food and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative easing and/or tighten monetary policy. Chinese authorities have already tighten and will be tightening some more to ...

New index launched to track super knowledge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... over 46 feel their super balance is low and that they're running out of time to build it up, the study found. The quantitative data, collected by newfocus and commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) was released as ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... rebuilding. Not so for its counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes ...

BTIM adds portfolio manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... primary analyst on the financials, infrastructure and utilities sectors, working with the income and fixed interest quantitative analysis and risk unit. Prior to working at Challenger, Davey was a ratings analyst at S&P. He has also worked for Citibank ...

Senior departures at Acadian

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... Burnham, director of portfolio management and Qi Zeng, portfolio manager were made less of a serious issue by the quantitative style and systematic investment process of the fund manager, the ratings house said. The ratings agency said it understands ...

SSgA names new Aus equities head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... Australia, during which she was a senior portfolio manager for Australian equity portfolios, and experience in active quantitative investing with Commonwealth Investment Management and Colonial First State. Engel, a CFA, was also president of the CFA ...