The Potential Pinch of the Royal Commission Economics, Fixed Income & Credit, Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance If one of the outcomes of the Royal Commission is for Australian banks to be required to strengthen their lending standards, it could cause housing credit growth to slow significantly, perhaps resulting in a credit crunch, Whitehelm Capital says Read More
The Biggest Risk in Investing is Trying to Avoid It: Grantham Equities, MarketFox, Risk and Regulation Asset managers don’t take enough risk when implementing their best ideas, according to veteran investor and GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham. “By far the biggest risk in the long run is to try and avoid risk, to try and hedge everything out,” Grantham says. “Forget it. You’ve got to learn to take some risk and hit […] Read More
Australia Needs to Export Technology, Not Talent: Farquhar Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation If Australia is to maintain its standard of living, it needs to make a greater effort to build a domestic technology industry, rather than allowing its well-educated professionals to be poached by overseas companies. Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, told an audience of venture capital and institutional investors in early March that Australian […] Read More
Do Members Benefit from Tax-Efficient Portfolios? Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Do members really benefit from tax-efficient portfolios, or are they simply deferred without any real gain? Read More
The Curious Case of Cash Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Research by Whitehelm Capital shows that some pension funds are stretching the definition of cash, adding less liquid and even credit instruments in these options. Cash is probably not the most sexy asset class in institutional investing, if you can call it an investment at all, and so you would not expect much controversy around […] Read More
Fee Disclosure Regime will Accelerate Move to Passive Asset Allocation & Strategy, Risk and Regulation The new fee disclosure regime for pension funds in Australia, described in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) Regulatory Guide (RG) 97, is likely to accelerate the move to passive investment strategies as many pension funds will seek to reduce their fee level, according to asset consultant JANA. John Coombe, Executive Director at JANA, […] Read More
Not Worried About Volatility? Risk and Regulation Multi-strategy funds have not faced easy market conditions, so why are they gaining in popularity among institutional investors? Read More
First State Super CIO on State Plus Acquisition Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Risk and Regulation Damian Graham, CIO of First State Super, talks to [i3] Insights about the rationale behind the acquisition of State Super and the benefits to its investment strategy. Read More
Curing the Gaussian Brain Behavioural Finance, Risk and Regulation Emotions don’t stand in the way of sound financial decisions-making; they are crucial to it. Read More
