Investment Magazine

Risk Management

Risk standards: keep them simple

In addressing new compliance standards for risk, QANTAS Super has increased the scope of its trustee liability insurance. The move is one of ... [more]

Three ways to better manage non-financial risk

The recent financial crisis shed light on a number of new sources of risk. On the one hand there was the extreme correlation ... [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]

Qantas Super tracks market threats with RiskMetrics

Qantas Superannuation Plan has begun using a RiskMetrics system to gauge how its $6 billion in assets can withstand various investment risks. The ... [more]

Learning to fly – with a parachute

It seems that all of a sudden everyone is talking about risk. The newspapers are screaming at us about the risk of contagion ... [more]

Flexible framework needed for pension plans

The general framework for occupational pension plans can be described as intra and inter-generational hybrid, with risk-sharing mechanisms between members and with sponsors. ... [more]

SWFs need customisation and engagement

Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs): natural resource funds such as those of Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, foreign ... [more]

Optimal asset allocation for sovereign wealth funds

In research conducted at EDHEC-Risk Institute as part of the research chair on asset liability management (ALM) techniques for sovereign wealth funds (SWF) ... [more]

Infrastructure investors need better benchmarks

Institutional investors need better research if they are going to enter the infrastructure space in a meaningful way.   [more]

Structured equity investing for long-term Asian investors

A major challenge for long-term investors is extracting risk premiums while maintaining limited exposure to downside risks, writes Stoyan Stoyanov.  [more]