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Bellwether hires AFM for mandate search

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... Bellwether's unique approach offers a lot to this market," said Donovan. The Melbourne based boutique fund manager uses a quantitative and qualitative investment process to invest in Australian shares. The firm's flagship Australian Shares Fund is a ...

Quant and quals brave the bear

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Quantitative versus qualitative managers - who's been battered worse amid the global financial crisis? According to two industry experts, both have had their share of joy and pain surviving the second half of 2008. Rohan Walsh, partner and fund manager ...

Intech taps ex-BT head of quant and two QIC staff

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Elimelakh has over 18 years experience in the industry having previously worked at BT Investment Management (Head of Quantitative Investment Strategies), Rothschild Australia Asset Management (Director, Head of Quantitative Analysis) and (MSCI) BARRA ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... Australia last week to talk about the company's global 130/30 equity fund. Unlike many 130/30 funds, which are based on quantitative strategies, Nicholas Applegate's product is one of the few fundamental 130/30 strategies in the market. This meant it ...

MTAA campaign halves death claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
MTAA Super's suicide death claims fell by 53 per cent since the fund launched its mental health awareness campaign, readthesigns, in 2004. The readthesigns initiative between MTAA Super and Lifeline Australia was launched in 2004 as a result the trustee's ...

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... Este pegged the mix as "the best trade off between risk and return". "We did some work with Intech, [with] their quantitative analysts," he said. Este said working with Intech allowed him to gauge the most efficient mix of the various sectors within ...

Ipac revises global equities strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
AXA Asia Pacific subsidiary ipac shifts more funds into quantitative investing and away from fundamentally driven strategies when it mandated Enhanced Investment Technologies and Arrowstreet Capital to manage more than $800 million in funds. Enhanced ...

IML overhauls staff retention strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... number of other firms. In addition, IML hired former Paul Winter, former Bear Stearns analyst, and Andrew Harrison as quantitative analyst's. Following the departure of senior portfolio manager, Paul Frost and equities analyst Shaun O'Malley in February ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... announcement comes just over a week after Justin Pascoe, ex- managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's quantitative investment strategies team in Hong Kong, was appointed as VFMC's chief investment officer. "With the appointment of Justin ...

VFMC appoints ex-Goldman Sachs MD

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... Management Corporation (VFMC) has appointed Justin Pascoe, former managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's quantitative investment strategies team in Hong Kong, as the fund's new chief investment officer. Pascoe has 16 years of industry ...