In mid-2008, three months after exiting the deputy head of Australian equities and senior small-cap Australian equities roles at Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Michael Dee and Paul Xavier hatched a long-held plan to put capital to work in five sectors displaying ‘long-term structural growth’.
Risk and Responsibility – Program and speaker’s notes
Morning Sessions 9.05am: Official Opening. Bryan Gray, chair Australian Custodial Services Association Download presentation [Adobe Acrobat PDF – 370.39 KB] 9.15am: After the crisis: What has changed forever for pension funds and the financial services industry. James Phalen, executive vice president and head of international operations, investment servicing, research and trading, State Street, UK Download … Read more
Risk and Responsibility – Program and speaker's notes
Morning Sessions 9.05am: Official Opening. Bryan Gray, chair Australian Custodial Services Association Download presentation [Adobe Acrobat PDF – 370.39 KB] 9.15am: After the crisis: What has changed forever for pension funds and the financial services industry. James Phalen, executive vice president and head of international operations, investment servicing, research and trading, State Street, UK Download … Read more
Ideas
Where They Come From and How To Cultivate Them
It has often been said in recent months that one benefit from the global financial crisis is that funds managers and investment banks will not be vacuuming up the best brains in the world in future; they will be left to pursue more worthwhile endeavours such as medical research, physics or engineering.
Is that too harsh? What have those best brains achieved during the 20-year financial services bubble?
STEPHEN SHORE and GREG BRIGHT look at how ideas are generated and whether the investment management industry is well equipped for innovation.
Ideas
Where They Come From and How To Cultivate Them
It has often been said in recent months that one benefit from the global financial crisis is that funds managers and investment banks will not be vacuuming up the best brains in the world in future; they will be left to pursue more worthwhile endeavours such as medical research, physics or engineering.
Is that too harsh? What have those best brains achieved during the 20-year financial services bubble?
STEPHEN SHORE and GREG BRIGHT look at how ideas are generated and whether the investment management industry is well equipped for innovation.
ING’s answer to infrastructure demand
ING Australia has introduced a new asset class to its OneAnswer investment platform and added six new investment options to the mix.
InTech’s largest remaining external client, the $1.8 billion ClearView Managed Investments, will consider walking away now that the consultant’s parent, Skandia, is to be bought by financial planning competitors to ClearView. Mercer IC analyst joins former boss at NGS Super
The $2.5 billion Non-Government Schools Superannuation Fund (NGS Super) has recruited a former Mercer Investment Consulting (Mercer IC) Australian equities manager researcher to its team.
Big step up for Justin Walsh
Perpetual Investments’ former general manager of sales and service for Australian equities, Justin Walsh, will have eight people reporting to him in the newly-created role he begins on April 6.
LPTs need super fund help: Kim Redding
Australian super funds could play a big part in stabilising our beleaguered listed property sector, by providing REITs with the long-term loans that they currently lack, according to the executive director of AMP Capital Investors’ global listed property joint venture. No plastic explosives necessary for this safe
BNP Paribas Securities Services is dusting off its special safe for the Investment Administration Conference at the Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre March 3. The safe has always caused a stir at previous ASFA and CMSF conferences, if only because of the ability of participants to correctly guess the combination.
