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HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... offer products from its specialist investment businesses including Halbis (active management specialist) and Sinopia (quantitative specialist). HSBC Alternative Investments' fund of hedge funds and tailor-made institutional portfolios of hedge funds ...

Loomis Sayles taps luxury goods and alt energy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... energy markets are driven by tax credits and subsidies," said Baribeau. The Loomis Sayles Global Growth fund uses a quantitative screen process that assesses company profits and potential future earnings growth and is reinforced with fundamental research ...

ING IM funds 'on hold' after departures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... asset strategies and alternatives will manage the Australian equities team. Also, head of investment process and quantitative services, Michael Price will be in charge of investment process and risk management factors in the Australian equities team. ...

Bakers launch alt energy retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... and which are expected to outperform the ASX 300. The securities are chosen using Bakers Investment Group bottom up quantitative and qualitative analysis and will cover six sectors such as low emission utilities, renewable energy, natural gas, uranium ...

MGI buys Omega stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Omega will remain an employee majority owned organisation and will have its own board of directors. Omega adopts a quantitative bottom up investment strategy to develop defensive, growth or income products for the institutional market. "While many boutique ...

VFMC back on hiring trail for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... house management capability and purchased a portfolio management system. We've started to hire people who can do some quantitative types of Australian equity portfolio management strategies." Bone said the worldwide search for de Bever's replacement ...

Bear market poses threat to mining

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... do much. If market sentiment turns against them then of course there's going to be risks," he said. Lincoln uses a quantitative method of determining the financial health of a company by taking into account key accounting ratios and a company's overall ...

RARE appoints ex-Fidelity as retail head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... Established in 2006, RARE Infrastructure has $800 million in funds under management. RARE Infrastructure adopts a quantitative and qualitative investment approach to select a portfolio of 30-60 stocks from more than 40,000 global listed securities.

Invesco hires ex-JANA exec to lead Aus eq quant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... equity capability is specially tailored for the Australian market and was developed over the last year by the Invesco Quantitative Strategies Group (IQS) based in Frankfurt. Invesco's announcement of the launch coincided with the appointment of Arthur ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... North Americans showed an even higher jump in confidence climbing 5.4 points. Because the State Street survey is a quantitative analysis of actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors it may actually be more revealing as to the direction ...