Margin pressure, regulation and an increasingly sophisticated investor base continue to provide challenging operating conditions for asset managers. “Cost pr...

Consolidation, rationalisation and regulation, but also innovation, transformation, internalisation and cooperation are some of the ‘ations that will be defi...

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

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

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

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

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

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-forecasting models, which ha...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nick Wienholt, a Sydney-based consultant specialising in quantitative and data engineering, provides an introduction into big data, machine learning and arti...