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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 ...

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 ...