Top Fund puts success down to Technology, but people can't be replaced

"The brains behind the top performing fund over the past 12 months say the secret to their success has been a customised computer system, designed to help them respond to volatile investment markets."

Fund Managers Weather Storm

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked first in the Mercer survey over one one year to 31 July 2011.

Share Funds Struggle to Match Market

"Of the more conventional long only funds a newcomer, Continuum Capital Management came top with a 25.7 per cent return."

"A principal of Continuum, Brett McElwee, said the strong return was achieved by reacting quickly to market trends, switching between sectors frequently, although in a disciplined way."

Active Managers Stuggling: Mercer

"Top performing manager for the year to May was Continuum Aggressive with a 23.6 per cent return"

Max Cappetta, Continuum Executive Director was quoted: 'I think we've done an exceptional job in our individual stock picking.' "

Fund Managers Outstrip Index in a Tough Month

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked second in the Mercer survey over 12 months to 30 April 2011.

Anthony Corr, Continuum Executive Director was quoted: "We take a view on what is the most attractive stock without considering their benchmark weight. For instance, stocks such as BHP have a very large weighting in the benchmark but we will only take a position if we find it attractive."

Capturing the whole continuum

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Substance Over Style in a Market Going Sideways

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked first in the Mercer survey over 12 months to 31 March 2011.

Quantitative Fund Managers Rule

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked first in the Mercer survey over one and three months to 28 February 2011. The Aggressive strategy was also highly ranked over 1 year with return of 23.5%.

Top Performer cooler on Resources

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked first in the Mercer survey over three months to 31 December 2010. The Strategy ranked third for calendar 2010

Brett McElwee, Continuum Executive Director, was quoted: "Our models did a very good job in the second half of last year, and in the fourth quarter in particular, of picking stocks that were going to carry on and do well, such as stocks in the small resources sector."

Share Funds Slip Behind 300 Index

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked third in the Mercer survey over twelve months to 31 January 2011.

Anthony Corr, Continuum Executive Director, was quoted: "We continue to be underweight financials generally and are overweight on small caps relative to the index."

Mercer Survey Points to 'poor year' for fund managers

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked third in the Mercer survey over twelve months to 31 December 2010.

Continuum Returns 12.4%

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked first for three months and third for Twelve months in the Mercer survey to 31 December 2010.

Brett McElwee, Continuum Executive Director, was quoted: "We run a disciplined investment process so rather than making fundamental calls on a daily basis, all our research goes into deploying our quantitative skills. It's a rules-based process and all the work goes into ascertaining what those rules should be."

Mercer Reveals Best Fund Managers of 2010

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked third in the Mercer survey over twelve months to 31 December 2010.

Quant Managers Top Long-Only List

Continuum's Aggressive strategy ranked second for three months in the Mercer survey to 30 September 2010.

Max Cappetta, Continuum Executive Director, was quoted: "We've had some good earnings results which make the market look reasonably well priced, so market direction will be driven by any earnings growth over the next year, though we won't see the momentum we did in the mid-2000s. We had a better second half. Once we got through reporting season the market was less driven by macro themes and was more stock specific - and we are stock pickers."

Media Release

Continuum Capital Management launches three quant equity strategies. More

Quant experts enter new continuum

Chris Nicholls, Financial Standard

Continuum launched

George Liondis, Money Management

Media Release

Continuum Capital Management is launched. Quant investment professionals Max Cappetta, Anthony Corr & Brett McElwee join forces to establish new boutique. More