In a busy cost-pressured environments performance fee calculations can get overlooked and errors can compound quickly, especially with daily priced funds, says Castle Hall’s Alex Wise.
I chat with Alex on his experiences across a range of environments, the role of machine learning in Australia’s future and how to best deploy data science in academia and industry.
Nothing on this podcast is to be considered investment advice or a reco
One in five Australians in any year will experience a mental health issue. What is less well known is that secondary conditions are a bigger problem.
If this current Australian summer of bush fires should be teaching us anything, it’s that climate inaction is expensive, says RIAA’s Simon O’Connor.
Direct lending lacks transparency making it hard to see when corporate loans start to turn sour, says Thadeus McCrindle, chief investment officer at Sandhurst Trustees.
The country’s largest superannuation fund is weighing whether to bring more investment operations in-house particularly when it comes to private assets.
Superannuation funds globally are moving towards full control and oversight of their externally-managed assets by tracking unit price changes in real time amidst increased regulatory scrutiny.
Since Mine Super’s Seamus Collins stepped into the chief investment role last April, the former head of portfolio implementation has focused on boosting returns by generating operational alpha.
Mercer has called for a universal age pension, scrapping the means tests and keeping the superannuation guarantee at 9.5 per cent in its Retirement Income Review submission. This would be a blow for many super funds especially those with flat or negative inflows.
HSBC’s former head of custody and clearing, Peter Snodgrass, and Northern Trust’s Sally Surgeon won lifetime achievement awards in Sydney this week.
UniSuper’s investment chief John Pearce is the highest-paid executive among Australia’s industry superannuation funds and is one of 10 people to take home a pay packet of more than $1 million.
ASIC superannuation executive leader, Jane Eccleston warned superannuation trustees to step up efforts to understand, measure and deliver good outcomes for members.
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