Front office technology is a fast-evolving industry at the best of times. Throw in a pandemic and a workforce starved of physical desk...

The performance function has always played important part in the investment management process, providing the feedback required to...

Australian superannuation funds are asking banks to offer 24 hour execution from Australia, following concerns that currency hedging...

Between the Global Financial Crisis and the latest COVID-19 induced market corrections, managing risk through extreme volatility is...

Making well-informed investment decisions isn’t easy at the best of times, but throw in a pandemic and a decade worth of quantitative...

Record breaking volatility has significantly altered trading and execution strategies, a series of webcasts hosted by Fund Business has...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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