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Cbus recruits lead for new core equities portfolio

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... domestic fundamental strategy is the next step for Cbus, having in recent years established a suite of fundamental and quantitative internal equities capabilities in domestic and global equities," Gavin stated. "This new strategy has relatively few capacity ...

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... manager in Sydney. Daniel Rigney has been appointed as portfolio manager, arriving from Rest Super, where he managed quantitative research. Rigney will play a big role in research, analysis, and development, reporting to the head of capital markets at ...

IFM adds ex-CIO to equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... up at IFM Investors. Roger McIntosh joins the industry fund-backed asset manager as investment director within the quantitative equities team. There he will be responsible for the daily portfolio construction, implementation and factor insight across ...

Morningstar hires research manager for super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... superannuation research team. As a research manager, he led a team of four research analysts, responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses and benchmarking of super, retirement and investment platform products. Previous roles include ...

Podcast: Carbon misconceptions in active investing portfolios with Guido Baltussen

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Guido Baltussen joins us on the podcast today. Guido is Northern Trust Asset Management's International Head of Quantitative Strategies. He recently put out a paper on 'carbon misconceptions' and the impact of net zero commitments on equity ...

Veteran ESG lead rejoins abrdn

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... followed by a two-year stint at Willis Towers Watson back in Sydney. At WTW, she was responsible for qualitative and quantitative research on Australian equity, global equity and long/short managers. She has also worked at Parametric Portfolio Partners ...

Robeco specialist poached by Northern Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... investment specialist based in Sydney - is joining former Robecco executive Guido Baltussen, who took on the role of quantitative strategies head for international clients last November. Baltussen, who was most recently head of equity factor investing ...

NGS names deputy CIO, expands ESG teams

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... reshuffled its investment leadership and ESG team. Michael Mi has been promoted from head of portfolio construction and quantitative research to the newly created role of deputy chief investment officer. He will also assume leadership of the Liquid Alternatives ...

Defunct fund pays greenwashing fine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... positive climate impact that we can measure." According to the PDS issued by Melbourne Securities, the fund applied a "quantitative materiality" threshold based on a company's revenue as part of the negative screening process under which "if more than ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... suggested this would "reduce uncertainty for reporting entities and encourage companies to take best efforts to use quantitative scenario analysis as early as possible." Some industry bodies support the idea. The Australian Institute of Company Directors ...