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FT snags $200m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... bank loans and emerging market debt. "The Global Aggregate Fixed Income approach allows us to pursue diversified sources of alpha across securities, sectors and global markets in our aim to add value to the portfolio for Australian investors," said Christopher ...

Ex-TGM chief economist moves to QIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... economist, Beverley Morris, who is on maternity leave. In his role, Peter will provide macro-economic analysis across QIC's alpha and beta management processes and supervise its economic research division. Brad Holzberger, QIC Asset Management chief ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... aspects of managing GMO's Australian equity portfolios as a senior quantitative research analyst, while primarily focusing on alpha model research. Mark Thompson joined GMO on 23 June 2008 as a senior quantitative research analyst. Mark brings 7 years ...

Plato wins OptiMix mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... OptiMix Australian Equities manager. "[Plato's] addition to the OptiMix Wholesale Australian shares portfolio will improve the alpha potential and the use of short positions in the portfolio will act as a hedge against falling stock prices," said Emmanuel ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... up in the demand for alternative assets as pension funds around the world seek to diversify their portfolios and capture alpha through absolute return strategies," said Roger Urwin, Watson Wyatt global head of investment consulting. "Changing pension ...

Ascalon buys 50pc stake in Sigrun

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... over a 12-month period and found it had consistently been in the top domicile of domestic managers and delivered positive alpha. "Sigrun's investment and risk management process allows Sigrun to manage long and long short mandates in domestic and international ...

QIC taps EMs with risk control

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... emerging markets to a portfolio can both diversify equity exposure and significantly increase the opportunity to create alpha for funds," Clarke said. "The stumbling blocks tend to include the impact on fees to members in the highly competitive superannuation ...

Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... mum-and-dad investors tend to focus on relative fund performance and "raw" returns while institutions focus on more sophisticated alpha and risk metrics. More importantly, mums-and-dads tend to stick with what they are familiar with. "If an investor ...

QIC appoints ex-Deutsche exec

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... investment process, stock selection, business strategy and performance. At a portfolio level, Jordan was responsible for the main Alpha product, which was close to $6 billion in size. Prior to his promotion to head of equities, Stuart was head of small ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... same exposure as physical assets but without the same level of capital allocation. This frees up cash to invest in other alpha or beta opportunities," she added. Buckley said today's more complex investment environment also gives large multidisciplinary ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN  |   12:33PM
Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA  |   11:56AM
Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:09AM
The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:20PM
MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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