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Investment Strategy

Dark-pool, high-frequency trading growing, making price discovery difficult

Australian fund managers have not tackled the potential impact of liquidity fragmentation brought about by the increasing popularity of dark-pool and high-frequency trading, say a professor at the Australian National University and the ASX’s general manager of equity markets.

I & T NewsAugust 9, 2011

Hedge Funds

Why does it feel so strange? Lasting changes in fiduciary investors’ strategies

In 1996, Peter Ryan-Kane wrote a paper called ‘The Living Room Effect’ in which he mused about the impact of a shrinking world on institutional investing. The Berlin wall had come down, CNN was making its presence felt and the internet was gaining traction – all visible from living rooms around the world, even in […]

Staff WriterNovember 2, 2009

Hedge Funds

Why does it feel so strange? Lasting changes in fiduciary investors’ strategies

In 1996, Peter Ryan-Kane wrote a paper called ‘The Living Room Effect’ in which he mused about the impact of a shrinking world on institutional investing. The Berlin wall had come down, CNN was making its presence felt and the internet was gaining traction – all visible from living rooms around the world, even in […]

Staff WriterNovember 2, 2009

Investment Strategy

LGSS pulls active mandates in Aussie equities beta push…

The NSW Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) has terminated three mandates with active Australian equity managers to increase the passive component of its $1.1 billion domestic equities portfolio to almost 50 per cent.

Staff WriterJune 9, 2009

Investment Strategy

Super funds urged to save for a risky day

Super funds should be putting aside 0.1 per cent of their annual investment return as a reserve to compensate members in the event that a major operational risk event occurs, according to Mercer.

Staff WriterApril 27, 2009

Unintentional

The secrets of Hostplus’ success

HostPlus has won the SuperRatings fund of the year award for the past three years in a row, and topped the Chant West ratings for the past two. When we called chief executive David Elia with the idea of a profile piece, he told us that if we really wanted to understand the fund’s success, […]

Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2009

Unintentional

The secrets of Hostplus’ success

HostPlus has won the SuperRatings fund of the year award for the past three years in a row, and topped the Chant West ratings for the past two. When we called chief executive David Elia with the idea of a profile piece, he told us that if we really wanted to understand the fund’s success, […]

Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2009

Unintentional

The secrets of Hostplus' success

HostPlus has won the SuperRatings fund of the year award for the past three years in a row, and topped the Chant West ratings for the past two. When we called chief executive David Elia with the idea of a profile piece, he told us that if we really wanted to understand the fund’s success, […]

Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2009