Investment Magazine

Administration

The great data challenge

The challenge: combine investment data with member-specific details and present the particular information in a way that satisfies the needs of regulators, internal ... [more]

ASFA to push for future-performance reporting

The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) will be pushing industry to project future performance using a “balanced scorecard”, according to its chief ... [more]

STP saves time, risk and cost

Since the advent of mainframes in the financial services sector, the term straight-through processing (STP) has been with us to describe the ongoing ... [more]

Board diversity helps emerging-market penetration

A study by AXA Investment Managers of Europe’s top 50 companies shows that those with a greater percentage of board members from emerging ... [more]

Funds need a benchmark

Cbus is to be applauded for showing the way in transparency, with its latest annual report disclosing more information about the fund’s investments, ... [more]

Super fees fall

Overall fees for the superannuation industry as a percentage of assets averaged 1.20 per cent for the 2011 financial year, a fall from ... [more]

ISN: moratorium on high frequency trading

The Industry Super Network (ISN) has called for a moratorium on high frequency trading (HFT) in Australian markets because of the potential negative ... [more]

Room for diversity

Australian supernnuation-fund boards suffer from “similarity selection bias” in selecting trustees and by doing so limit their opportunities to act, according to human-capital ... [more]

OPERA for everyone

The Open Protocol Enabling Risk Aggregation (OPERA) is a collaborative effort involving hedge fund managers, investors, prime brokers and administrators. A working group ... [more]

AustralianSuper to expand internally

AustralianSuper is looking to add up to 20 investment staff as it moves to take part of the management of its Australian equity ... [more]