Insight Investment has put the case for active asset allocation for investors over the market cycle, but especially now when both traditional defensive and growth assets are at troubling levels. In a webinar last week (February 25), Bruce Murphy, the
US markets could halve settlement times by 2023 in a move aimed at dramatically cutting margin costs and reducing risk, according to financial infrastructure provider The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The DTCC proposal released in the wake of
Michael Power, the high-profile head of strategy for global fund manager Ninety One – formerly Investec Asset Management – presided over a research project last year, called ‘The Road to 2030’. He now says: “2030 is closer than you think.”
The major asset servicing firms are widening their field of vision and have, for the most part, become front-to-back-office providers, as middle-office outsourcing becomes ubiquitous for big investors and managers. It is a development which has taken place concurrently with
Super funds and other asset owners are adapting to the lingering impact of the pandemic through a big jump in manager searches, according to the latest quarterly report from bfinance. The global fund search and advisory firm has reported a
The world’s major pension systems enjoyed their strongest year, last year, for growth compared to GDP, since 1998. The bad news, of course, is that the average 11.2 per cent rise for many countries this helped by stalling or falling
Index providers should face the same regulatory hurdles as investment managers, a new US legal paper argues. In the US, plain-vanilla indexers are regarded as information ‘publishers’. The University of Virginia School of Law (UVS) report says most index providers
One in five Australian institutional investors has terminated a fund manager where ESG factors have been a “primary or major factor” in the decision, according to a survey by bfinance, the global research and institutional advisory business. A further 41
The switch in focus to retirement incomes, ahead of the introduction of the Retirement Income Covenant, was evident at the annual SMSF Association conference last week. Deborah Ralston said: “Super has been a bit overdone”. Ralston, one of the panellists
If APRA wants to continue to encourage super fund mergers the regulator needs to make some changes to how it goes about its approvals process, according to one chief executive who is going through the process of having a successor
Insight Investment has put the case for active asset allocation for investors over the market cycle, but especially
US markets could halve settlement times by 2023 in a move aimed at dramatically cutting margin costs and
Michael Power, the high-profile head of strategy for global fund manager Ninety One – formerly Investec Asset Management
The major asset servicing firms are widening their field of vision and have, for the most part, become
Super funds and other asset owners are adapting to the lingering impact of the pandemic through a big
The world’s major pension systems enjoyed their strongest year, last year, for growth compared to GDP, since 1998.
Index providers should face the same regulatory hurdles as investment managers, a new US legal paper argues. In
One in five Australian institutional investors has terminated a fund manager where ESG factors have been a “primary
The switch in focus to retirement incomes, ahead of the introduction of the Retirement Income Covenant, was evident
If APRA wants to continue to encourage super fund mergers the regulator needs to make some changes to
