Investment Magazine

Investing

Does reform spell the end for the OTC market?

The global reforms to the trading, clearing and settlement of over-thecounter (OTC) instruments have been well published and there is a pleasing level ... [more]

First Super pulls out of News Corp

The “belligerent” attitude of News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch towards governance reform has prompted First Super to exit its investment in the global ... [more]

Hostplus focuses on emerging markets as growth engines

Asia, demographics and growth engines have led to a greater emerging market exposure for Hostplus, says chief investment officer Sam Sicilia. The superannuation ... [more]

Where standard risk
approaches fail

Towers Watson is recommending better, broader ways of measuring and monitoring risk, and uses the concept of the “irreversibility of time” to illustrate ... [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]

How the Future Fund found agility

Using a fund of funds enabled the Future Fund to build a large exposure to hedge funds quickly during the global financial crisis, ... [more]

Better beta from
less passive indexes

Tim Gardener was disgruntled. “I worry about the corporate bond space. If you invest according to market capitalisation in the corporate bond space, you ... [more]

Equipsuper to manage
futures in-house

Staff at the $4.6-billion Equipsuper could start making tactical investment bets through futures contracts by the end of the year. Equipsuper’s seven-person investment ... [more]

Low-carbon winners and losers

How high is your portfolio’s exposure to potential stranded carbon assets? According to Generation Asset Management, stranded assets are those with a value that ... [more]

The evolution of global bonds

The global bond market is in the midst of a giant step in its evolution from a market dominated by developed-country debt to ... [more]