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SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... equities. He joins SSgA most recently from Oppenheimer Funds, where he was a senior portfolio manager and director of quantitative research leading the research and investment technology teams and spearheading the portfolio strategy function. Reinganum ...

Future Fund on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... analyst, private equity within the private markets division as well. The Future Fund is also on the hunt for a senior quantitative analyst and investment analyst to join its strategy team. The senior quant analyst will be responsible for supporting the ...

Schroders scoops intl equities mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... the mandate, which is an investment in Schroders' enhanced index strategy. "Schroders takes a pragmatic approach to quantitative equity investment and we expect it to perform well in a range of market environments, including volatile and non-trending ...

State Super Fin Services seeks CIO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... economist for ACI International and senior manager at Colonial Investment Management across the strategy, economics and quantitative teams. He was also Colonial's investment manager for all the balanced funds, which totalled $5 billion during his ten ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... is not being managed in line with its stated investment approach," he said. The study used two approaches; first a quantitative analysis was done on over 900 strategies that examined the intended and realised average holding periods for a number of investment ...

State Super Fin Services CIO resigns, takes VIC Super post

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... economist for ACI International and senior manager at Colonial Investment Management across the strategy, economics and quantitative teams. He was also Colonial's investment manager for all the balanced funds, which totalled $5 billion during his ten ...

AFA awards top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... But other insurers also came home with the thumbs up from the planning industry (the winners are selected based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, which includes feedback from advisers who use the products). AXA Australia won the Life Cover and ...

GMO head of Aussie equities departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... funds under management to a member of the group's domestic equities team. Geoff Wells, who was previously senior quantitative research analyst, has been promoted to the top job effective this week. In his new role, he will be managing more than a third ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... value - not for now at least. US bond yields are expected to rise soon, starting when the Fed begins to unwind its quantitative easing. At its January Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed confirmed that it would be closing some of its ...

130/30 strategies slammed for high fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... performance, according a report. The van Eyk Australian Equities Extension Sector review of more than 10 fundamental and quantitative strategy fund managers found some managers are charging excessively high fees for minimal performance. "Some sector ...