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AustralianSuper hires Inalytics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... confirms there has been a growing demand from superannuation fund, multi managers and fund managers themselves for quantitative analysis to get behind the track records and identify manager investment skill." This appointment follows recent reports the ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... market valuations during economic turmoil is highly misleading. Over the last year stock markets have tumbled and quantitative easing has affected gilt yields. This approach left schemes facing huge swings in their financial position on a day-by-day ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 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 ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... is make very small bets across hundreds of securities rather than on 70 to 80 stocks," he said. The fund is also a quantitative manager that has been around for 21 years, bagging the "Quantitative Manager of the Year" award in Europe last year. Explaining ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... in this current environment is because of our focus on liquidity," said Ben Funk, partner and head of research and quantitative risk management at Liongate. "We wanted to have [a] strategy where we're shifting the weight in our portfolio. We've always ...

Advisers eye annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... most products are inconsistent with their fee-based business model." John Hsu, analyst and co-author of the Cerruli Quantitative Update: Annuities and Insurance 2009 report, singled out insurance and independent brokers or dealers as the likely candidates ...

Clearway adds third client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Management to market the business locally and in New Zealand. Zebra Capital Management, Clearway's third client, is a quantitative investment manager that provides market neutral and long short equity strategies to institutional investors. Roger Ibbotson ...

US fixed interest SRI beats market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... that investors have to give up performance to invest their conscience," said Pamela DeBolt, author of the Cerulli Quantitative Update: Retail Products and Strategies 2009. Causing the stir among US investors is how SRI fixed-income funds have out-performed ...

S&P awards Bennelong fund 'three star'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... US based firm, Security Benefit Corp. The San Francisco based management team is made up of seven analysts and two quantitative analysts. The team includes three principals that have more than 20 years of global investment experience. "The investment ...