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Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

Pathway offers virtual workspace for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... documents with clients and complete transactions using any internet enabled device. Pathway head of advice development, Peter Boston said the group is always looking for ways to make the lives of advisers and clients easier. "Suitebox represents a great ...

State Street services over half of global ETF assets

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
State Street has announced that global ETF assets under its administration have exceeded US$2 trillion. The Boston-headquartered corporation now services more than half (55%) of the global industry's ETF and ETP assets under management, according to ...

Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... interest rate hikes this year (after the first rate hike for 2017 announced last month). The latest report also gives meat to Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren's comment that "the process [of shrinking the balance sheet] could begin relatively soon" ...

State Street star promoted

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
One of State Street Global Advisors' most well-known fund managers will relocate to Boston to take up a leading role. Olivia Engel, head of active quantitative equity for Asia-Pacific, has been appointed as deputy chief investment officer of SSgA's ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... Implications for Future Business Cycle Dynamics" at 60th annual economic conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen spoke about many things at that conference but one ...

NZ Super Fund partners in US renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... initial investment in a US-based renewable energy development. The newly-formed Longroad Energy Holdings is headquartered in Boston and focuses on the development of wind and solar energy generation. Infratil and the NZ Super Fund partnered to invest ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
The value of a business in the global investable universe can be reduced to "three circles," according to Robeco Boston Partners portfolio manager Joshua Jones. In Sydney to discuss Robeco's Boston Partners Global Premium Equities Fund, Jones described ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... something, of course, is lifting the US fed funds rate (sending the US dollar higher), should the FOMC adopt dove-turned-hawk Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren's advice that "A failure to continue on the path of gradual removal of accommodation could ...

Zurich appoints APAC CEO from Generali

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... executive at Prudential Assurance. He was also a chief executive and director at AIG and has held roles at TwentyTen, the Boston Consulting Group and Charles River Associates. In his new role, Howell will work closely with interim Asia-Pacific chief ...