Event Coverage

Australian asset owners are eyeing S&P 500 options to protect against a breakdown between Australian dollar and equities.

Investors in Australia are integrating artificial intelligence techniques as a way to improve alpha, portfolio construction and guide investment decisions across asset classes.

Fast growing Australian super funds are taking their liquidity offshore, turning to derivatives, repo and synthetic exposures to free up capital and put their balance sheets to work.

Institutional investors in Australia are increasingly turning to total return swaps to extract additional alpha from passive portfolios.

Institutional investors in Australia are increasing overlays allocations to manage risk and enhance returns across asset classes.

Superannuation funds seeking uncorrelated and absolute return streams are increasingly turning to commodities focused portable alpha programs.

Investors are turning to Chinese assets for diversification and systematic alpha over concerns crowding is eroding returns across established quantitative investment strategies. 

Crisis risk offset strategies are helping investors lock in gains and add back risk amid increasingly short lived volatility. 

Booming RILAs market sees insurers becoming larger derivatives players.

Monday and Wednesday zero days to expiration options on single stocks are reducing not amplifying volatility, says Citadel Securities.