 Raewyn Williams Managing Director, Research, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (at time of writing) Raewyn Williams is director, research and after-tax solutions, Parametric Australasia. Williams is responsible for setting the Australian research agenda to research and develop new products for the Australian market. She is a current member of the FTSE ASFA advisory committee and the Taxation Institute of Australia superannuation committee. She is a qualified solicitor, graduating with Bachelors of Economics and Law from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the UTS College of Law. Prior to joining Parametric, Raewyn was director, after-tax investment strategies at Russell Investments.
RAEWYN WILLIAMS | FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016 'Alpha' as an investment concept is well understood. It is the difference between a portfolio's actual return and the return expected from the portfolio based on its exposure to the market (its 'beta'). More simply, if a portfolio's ... Read more RAEWYN WILLIAMS | TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015 Investing with an after-tax focus is an idea whose time has come. But every idea is only as good as its implementation, and superannuation funds are now facing the important question of who can help. Read more RAEWYN WILLIAMS | FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011 This paper follows on from a series of Russell research papers advancing a framework for choosing between active and passive investment styles. This paper introduces an after-tax investing perspective and identifies key differences in how an after-tax ... Read more PAGE: 1 |
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