Australian buy-side institutions are being urged to get a clear handle on their exposure to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) bef...

Extreme market events often trigger rebalancing requirements, particularly in funds that apply strategic asset allocation (SAA) policies....

If investment risk professionals spent 2019 preparing for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous markets, 2020 is proving to be the y...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) ‘heatmap’ of MySuper performance numbers, published for the first time in Decembe...

Margin pressure, regulation and an increasingly sophisticated investor base continue to provide challenging operating conditions for asse...

Consolidation, rationalisation and regulation, but also innovation, transformation, internalisation and cooperation are some of the ‘atio...

Australian buyside firms are being urged to get up to speed with new derivatives regulations set to significantly shake up existing proce...

Buyside trading desks are under growing pressure to cut costs or deliver profits, the annual FIX conference in Sydney has heard. Speaking...

Today’s investment landscape is the toughest environment that Brett Himbury, CEO of IFM Investors, has seen in a career spanning 38 years...

Asset managers are increasingly looking to derivative strategies to enhance risk profiles and protect against surprise market moves. Whil...

After nearly two decades of leading technology, data and strategic change programs at AMP Capital, Doug Talbot, formerly Director of Stra...

Dr Alistair Rew, Global Head of Investech, AMP Capital, talks to Fund Business about data, technology and the Cortex Investech strategy

A decade ago, the global financial crisis triggered a rethink of the accuracy and predictability of statistical pricing and risk-forecast...

Factor investment strategies are on the rise among Australian asset owners, with multi-factor strategies proving particularly attractive....

With the prospect of a no-deal Brexit drawing nearer, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is urging firms with global op...

Quality data is increasingly seen as key to asset management, but building a solid data governance framework is easier said than done. Ac...

In a climate of rapid technological innovation, deciding which technologies to adopt, when to innovate and when to pass on potential new ...

Trust in the financial system at the advisor level had halved in the run-up to the Royal Commission, according to research by CoreData, b...

​Factoring environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements into investment processes increasingly seen as a precondition to winni...

Data and calculation errors have been at the root of a number of large-scale financial incidents. Nick Wienholt, a Sydney-based consulta...