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HSBC wins AMP Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... provide global passive inflation-linked bonds to AMP Capital's Future Directions Diversified Funds. As the specialist quantitative asset management arm of HSBC Global Asset Management, Sinopia manages assets in excess of $32.6 billion. According to Sean ...

Irrationally exuberant greater fool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

OptiMix appoints new managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... market valuations while employing active credit positioning and security selection. Batterymarch is an expert in quantitative equity asset management, and capitalises on bottom-up stock-picking capabilities using a proprietary stock selection model developed ...

Bennelong fund wins place with Alpha

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... Zschech, Alpha portfolio manager, said BAEP's bottom-up fundamental analysis, combined with one of the strongest quantitative tool sets in the market, led to their inclusion in Alpha's line-up. "This is great news for BAEP and affirms their current strategy ...

RBC Dexia wins HSBC mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... Investments offers products from HSBC Global Asset Management, including Halbis (active management specialist) and Sinopia (quantitative specialist), as well as HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HSBC's hedge fund specialist) and HSBC Principal Investments ...

RBS restructures Aussie equities team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... head of ECM, EMEA & US. The Australian equities team has also appointed Richard Hitchens as director, specialist quantitative sales, Roger Spellman as director, head of sales for Australian Equities and Mark Tisdell as investor product sales specialist. ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... single central bank announced a reduction in interest rates. Not one announced further policy easing measures such as quantitative easing, extra purchases of short and long-term bonds and other assets, and so on. Not one announced acceptance of lower ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
'Don't fight the Fed!' 'The trend is your friend!' These market aphorisms are again coming back in fashion. Upward momentum in equity markets all around the world have been steadily gathering pace since hitting what is turning out to be the lowest point ...

Intl equities on a good run...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... the money flooded into the system by government stimulus packages and central banks' interest rate reductions and quantitative easing are having their desired effect. The Libor rate on 3-month US dollars has now fallen to around 0.70 per cent - significantly ...