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MTAA awards $450m quant mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
MTAA Super has awarded a $450 million mandate to BlackRock Investment Management to run a quantitative, tax-aware Australian equities portfolio. Maurice O'Shannassy, BlackRock managing director, said a tax-conscious portfolio could make a substantial ...

S&P recruits IOOF exec after Ibbetson's exit

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... multi-manager funds. He also chairs the investment committee of IOOF's financial planner group Consultum and provides quantitative and qualitative research and advice to their clients. Nick Everingham, head of product and strategy at IOOF said O'Connor ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... CalPERS' initial $161.3 million investment among seven emerging managers. New York-based Quotient Investors is a new quantitative equity management firm specialising in industry-specific alpha modeling. The firm will run two portfolios: $107.6 million ...

AXA Rosenberg eyes emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... emerging market product would not favour any particular country or sector, instead the firm uses a combination of two quantitative models, valuation and earnings forecast, to analyse stocks. The valuation model compares similar companies by analysing ...

Aviva Investors the new force in GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... executive team are yet to be announced. A Global Investment Solutions team has been created to develop a range of quantitative and indexed structured products from April. These products will be distributed through Aviva Morley SICAV, which has been re-branded ...

Russell MM scores top marks

... outcome for clients. When assessing funds, Lonsec considers a range of factors emphasising qualitative aspects over quantitative results. "Lonsec zeroed in on Russell's manager research process," Chris Corneil, managing director of Russell Investor Services ...

New appointments at Macquarie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... change. Jones will also be responsible for the day-to-day management of existing international portfolios, conducting quantitative modeling and developing new products. He brings ten years of experience in equity buy and sell side roles, covering quantitative ...

Toolsets by managers, for managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... include Schroders, Fidelity, Prudential and BlackRock. "What makes the dashboard so effective is that its designers are quantitative investment managers, not just computing people who may have had an idea," said Mahoney. This expertise gives them a leg-up ...

Macq appoints ex-Platypus fundie

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... During this time, Pepe was responsible for fundamental security analysis and valuation of all ASX sectors as well as quantitative research and investment process development. According to Macquarie, the High Conviction Fund outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 ...

Morgan Stanley launches new FX strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... per cent above the same index, with an estimated VaR of 16 per cent. The strategy is managed by MSIM's London-based quantitative and structured solutions team, led by managing director Justin Simpson. The team currently manages approximately $4 billion ...