Global agency brokerage and technology firm ITG has launched a new publication investigating challenges and developments in the analysis of trading costs. CLARE ROWSELL, head of client relationship management for ITG in Asia Pacific, argues that transaction cost analysis has become a vital tool for funds managers and traders, and looks at how new advances can help reduce costs and improve performance for investors.
Below the waterline – uncovering the hidden costs of equity trading
Global agency brokerage and technology firm ITG has launched a new publication investigating challenges and developments in the analysis of trading costs. CLARE ROWSELL, head of client relationship management for ITG in Asia Pacific, argues that transaction cost analysis has become a vital tool for funds managers and traders, and looks at how new advances can help reduce costs and improve performance for investors.
Super funds be wary: we’re in a period of engagement
Greg Bright
The chief executive of First State Super was exaggerating, of course, but most of his colleagues in the room would agree.
Super funds be wary: we’re in a period of engagement
Greg Bright
An industry fund initiative that nobody can knock
Michael Bailey
That ill-feeling might manifest itself in a cranky response to APRA’s whole-of-fund super performance sta- tistics, as useless as they admittedly are. Maybe it comes out less publicly, for instance by feeding an Australian jour- nalist an erroneous hatchet-job about the Conference of Major Super Funds, confident in the knowledge they won’t bother ringing to check the facts. (We know who you are, by the way.)
An industry fund initiative that nobody can knock
Michael Bailey
Toward an end-to-end process for handling mental health insurance claims
Insurance claims for mental health- related illnesses are more complicated than those for physical injuries. Many of the problems relate to social attitudes toward those with psychiatric disorders. In this gathering of Industry Fund Forum members, legal and mental health experts, and group insurer CommInsure, an attempt is made to identify the extent of mental … Read more
Toward an end-to-end process for handling mental health insurance claims
Insurance claims for mental health- related illnesses are more complicated than those for physical injuries. Many of the problems relate to social attitudes toward those with psychiatric disorders. In this gathering of Industry Fund Forum members, legal and mental health experts, and group insurer CommInsure, an attempt is made to identify the extent of mental … Read more
Superannuation Insurance Symposium
‘Insuring’ a better outcome for members Date: Wednesday 28 October 2009 Venue: Sofitel, Melbourne, VIC
ASI Conference 2009
ASI Conference 2009 Investing in a post-crisis world Date:Wednesday 16 – Friday 18 September 2009 Venue: Sheraton Mirage Resort, Gold Coast, QLD
The end of asset allocation
Alternative investment ideas to salvage your portfolio
There’s nothing like a crisis to make an industry question its fundamental beliefs, and poor old Harry Markowitz has certainly been in the firing line since everybody’s asset-allocated, ‘diversified’ portfolios all crashed together in 2008/9.
Does his modern portfolio theory still stack up? What role will alternative assets play in any, ahem, alternative to it? These questions are sure to be fiercely debated at September 8’s third annual Absolute Returns Conference, produced by Conexus Financial (publisher of this magazine).
Diversification ain’t diversification when everybody’s doing it, it seems, and as KRISTEN PAECH reports, some stakeholders are now calling for a more ‘back to basics’ approach, even dragging the old ‘balanced vs specialist’ debate out of the mothballs.
