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Intech shifts focus to after-tax

CHRIS NICHOLLS | TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007

... focusing on boutiques and after-tax returns. The shift to boutiques comes after Intech's own research suggested the majority of alpha in the next three to five years will come from them. "Despite the shrinking pool of new quality boutiques, Intech's ...

QIC appoints Aussie trading desk head

CHRIS NICHOLLS | MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007

... executive Chris Claridge as head of equities dealing. Claridge will manage QIC's Australian equities trading desk, focussing on alpha generation. He specialises in facilitation, portfolio trading and derivatives. Claridge worked previously as Austock's ...

State Super awards $300m-plus in global property

... diversification strategy. "It is a beta play to reduce the absolute risk of the portfolio and hopefully, get a little bit of alpha." Asked whether he intends to invest more in global property mandates this year, he answered, "Not at this stage. We've ...

The long and the short of JANA

... trust have a maximum 140/40 limit. The underlying managers for the global product are State Street Global Advisors Global Alpha Plus, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Global Flex and Acadian Global Equities Long Short. Meanwhile, the local equities product ...

Diversification under the microscope

MICHAEL HOBBS | TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007

... using the barbell risk and return model that encourages more investment in high quality securities as a way of achieving alpha while at the same time having a limited exposure to higher yield riskier securities.

QIC appoints new beta manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS | TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007

... service abilities. "He will play an important on-going role, not only in the Global Fixed Interest team, but across QIC's alpha beta separation investment platform," she said. "Over time, the fixed interest beta management will broaden to cover a number ...

Core-satellite investing gets the balance right

MICHAEL HOBBS | THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007

... investor. "The key is to use indexing as a central building block of a portfolio and then finding quality active managers to add alpha or outperformance to the satellite component of the portfolio," Michael Houlihan, manager of retail products and technical ...

Future Fund appoints former QIC head strategist

MICHAEL HOBBS | MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007

... investment managers in the country with $55 billion in funds. While at QIC, he was part of the investment team that championed alpha-beta investing strategies. Last month, the group completed the re-structure of its $28 billion portfolio into alpha-beta ...

AX investing takes hold

... extension - hence the name - on what many managers are already doing. "If you have market insights and you can generate alpha you can use AX to generate more alpha," said Dr Leibowitz. "AX investing is really intended to be an extension of the long-only ...

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

... Vanguard and State Street are among the winners of QIC's radical move announced a year ago to invest $28 billion in separate alpha and beta strategies, with both fund managers awarded around $3 billion each in passive mandates. Many super funds have ...

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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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