Volume 2, Issue 1

Communications & Marketing
BRUCE STAFFORD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Super funds have a technical heritage but to survive in tomorrow's much more competitive environment they will have to become true marketing organisations. Negotiating these challenges means coming to terms with choice of fund, industry consolidation ... Read more
Retirement
DARREN WICKHAM  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Retirement is a relatively new phenomenon. As a period of leisure it is even more novel. Increasing lifespans and low birth rates mean that retirement is becoming less affordable. Retirement now means decades of government funded leisure (funded through ... Read more
Administration & Management
KRYSTAL HIDE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
We are all affected by the "War on Talent" in how we run our organisations, whether we are super fund, a platform, an advisory group, an investment manager, an administrator or some other type of service provider. Indeed across the highly ... Read more
Ethics & Governance
ERIK MATHER  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Effective protection against insider trading is critical to market confidence and, over time, liquidity. For a company, failing to demonstrate a working governance system to prevent insider trading not only poses risks for the company but also for the ... Read more
Investment
SUSAN GOSLING  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Imagine you are offered $5 million to play Russian roulette. If you put a revolver with a bullet in one of the six available chambers to your head, there are six possible outcomes - five of which are highly favourable, and one of which is fatal. While ... Read more
SCOTT MACDONALD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
The continuing volatility in all equity markets and other traditional assets means the move into alternative investments should be an easy decision. With this in mind why is it currently estimated that the allocation to alternatives stands at only 6-8 ... Read more
MICHAEL SENOSKI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Pension liabilities are long-term cash flow obligations of the plan sponsor. Financial accounting and US federal funding standards require that these liabilities are to be valued based on a high-quality bond yield curve. The purpose of this paper is ... Read more
STEPHEN BORTHWICK  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008
Active portfolio management is the art of balancing risk and return. The term "balance" insinuates that half of the art of portfolio construction lies in stock selection and the other half in risk management. However the majority of fund management ... Read more