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S&P rates AQE fund five stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
Standard & Poor's awarded Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management's (GSJBW) Australia Quantitative Equity Fund (AQE Fund) a four star rating. Set up in 2004, the long only fund combines quantitative and fundamental strategies based on six investment themes ...

AMP Cap hires Asian stock specialist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... BT Funds Management in the Asian investment funds division and also at the Commonwealth Investment Management as a quantitative analyst. In this role, Sivanesarajah will work in the Asian equities team which manages the listed AMP Capital China Growth ...

S&P studies single manager alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... and retail market demand, the report said. Tactical allocation strategies, overall, had under performed due to its quantitative and long term outlook the report said. Yet, those funds with a fundamental overlay had performed better in the current volatile ...

ASX firms snub climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... recognised the company's responsibility to address climate change, just five per cent publicly committed or disclosed a quantitative target to reduce the impact of their operations. Indeed, almost two fifths of those identified as high impact firms barely ...

Praemium expands UK funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... research they already use but within a more tax efficient environment," said Naoumidis. OBSR supplies qualitative and quantitative investment analysis to fund ratings and product panels for financial advisers, accountants, insurance companies and investment ...

REST terminates GMO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... before and we had a little bit of concern there," said Hill. Some of these changes include the departure of ex-GMO quantitative managers Max Cappetta and Anthony Corr, who left to form their own boutique, Continuum Capital Management, with former MIR ...

Bellwether secures debut mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... conviction portfolios to discipline and an ability to filter market noise - a strategy Bellwether implements via quantitative and qualitative screens. "Our structure, which tightly integrates portfolio management skill, dealing and analysis allows rapid ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... intend to step into that role and play it very well," she said. Cuddy and East will be joined by Keith Hwang, director quantitative research, and senior analysts Michael Chun and Michael Malseed. Hwang joins from Schroders while Chun and Malseed are ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... In his new role, Wells will participate in all aspects of managing GMO's Australian equity portfolios as a senior quantitative research analyst, while primarily focusing on alpha model research. Mark Thompson joined GMO on 23 June 2008 as a senior quantitative ...

SELECT guides investors to managed futures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... markets. The downside is that managed futures can be risky due to a lack of transparency arising from the complex quantitative techniques used to analyse them. Also, the firm advises investors of the inherent dangers of certain leveraging strategies ...