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Coding error review prompts sell rating

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... months of September and November, it is yet to understand the effect the error has had on the performance of the quantitative strategies, noted S&P. It has hired an external consultant to work alongside the AXA Rosenberg team to analyse past performance. ...

Ascalon and Regal form partnership

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... firm specialises in fundamental based market neutral, long/short and absolute return strategies, as well as Asian quantitative strategies. Andrew King, managing director of Regal said the agreement marked an important step for the firm's future growth. ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... much to it but possibly we could." Chris Clayton, chief executive at Acadian Asset Management (Australia), said the quantitative fund manager did not make any major changes to its Australian equities portfolio when the RSPT was announced because of the ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... APRA has warned that they must be able to demonstrate the basis on which they have made their decisions, e.g. using quantitative modelling. The probability thresholds that will determine the categorisation assignments for growth, balanced and capital ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Australian equities quantitative fund managers may become far more secretive about their investment strategies as they strive to find different stock market signals to outperform their peers, according to one ratings firm. Justine Gorman, analyst at ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... in all other information and... voila! We have confusion. Try reconciling these for instance: Japan revving up its quantitative easing versus the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China ...

JANA adds to investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... joins the firm from Vanguard where he spent four years managing equity portfolios. JANA also hired Ann Marco as a quantitative analyst and will become involved in the quantitative services and absolute return research teams. Prior to this role, Marco ...

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. ...