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Former AllianceBernstein team attracts $275m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... with the help of First NZ Capital and opened for business in 11 January this year. The fund manager includes five quantitative and qualitative investors and a chief operating officer, according to Morningstar. Bascand said the team had worked together ...

Schroder appoints specialist to quant team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... Management Australia has appointed former Julius Baer executive Luc Simoncini as investment specialist to its global quantitative equity team. The appointment takes the size of Schroders' quantitative equities team worldwide to 19. Based in Sydney, Simoncini ...

Man Group buys $27bn alternatives manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... According to Reuters, the deal creates the second largest hedge fund firm in the world behind J.P. Morgan. GLG and Man's quantitative investment styles have a low correlation, which provides greater stability in the combined performance fee prospects. ...

FTSE partners for Asia Pacific IPO index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... exchange can be an attractive strategy for both domestic and international investors," said Jamie Perrett, head of quantitative research for FTSE Asia Pacific. Renaissance Capital provides IPO-focussed independent research and investment management s ...

... and hires three to fill research

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... and James Armstrong as an analyst in the investment research team. Prior to joining the firm, Garner worked as a quantitative strategist in the implemented solutions team at QIC for two years. Meanwhile, Armstrong spent three years at Westpac as a fund ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... contagion by Greece's sovereign debt crisis. But this might be resolved through concerted action by the G-20 and/or quantitative easing by the European Central Bank. Or perhaps... China could buy Greece. In the end, this correction could prove to be ...

Tech aids capital markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... regulators will require banks to implement stronger pre-trade risk mechanisms to lower the risk of 'fat finger' trades and quantitative trading platforms selling off huge amounts of stocks. While it will take time to implement those mechanisms, the firm ...

Lonsec appoints head of equities research

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... previously worked at Rainmaker and Fidelity prior to working at van Eyk. At Lonsec, Kwok will be responsible for the quantitative analysis of the portfolio construction process. "He will provide a range of quantitative input to other products and services ...

Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... management team in Sydney, where he was involved with local super fund and portfolio sales trading for index and quantitative fund managers. Prior to joining Deutsche, Wyse worked at AMP Capital Investors for five years. Wyse will be responsible for ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...