The Golden Era Of Investment Operations Is Now
The 2020 investment operations conference, organised by Conexus Financial, brought forward many key factors shaping the industry including the ever evolving careers of those within it. To sum up the current state of investment operations in the words of Mine Super chief investment officer, “The golden era of investment operations is now.” Instrumental drivers of…
2020 Job Market Outlook For Investment Performance Analysts
Over the course of 2019, we saw an increase in demand for performance analysts – largely driven by superannuation funds from growing internalisation of middle office functions, and increased regulatory pressure for transparency in performance returns. We expect this trend to continue in 2020. We are also seeing asset owners and managers outsource aspects of…
Financial Services Job Market Update – End Of 2019 Start 2020
We cannot recall a busier recruitment period during the final weeks of 2019 and the pace has increased in 2020. We had jobs being filled on Christmas Eve, clients calling in work on 31 December and more roles to fill as soon as New Years kicked over. We forecast increasing demand in the first half…
Case Study: Chief Investment Officer, Superannuation
CLIENT legalsuper is the super fund for Australia’s legal community. It manages over $4 billion on behalf of 45,000 members. CHALLENGE Due to a sudden departure of their former chief investment officer (CIO), Kaizen Recruitment was engaged to recruit both an interim CIO, while concurrently conduct an executive search process across the Australian market. This…
Kaizen Recruitment Hosts Annual Wealth Management Leaders’ Round Table Discussion
Kaizen Recruitment recently hosted the annual luncheon for leaders in wealth management. The meeting drew together representatives from a range of wealth management and superannuation firms, with the aim of providing a networking forum for senior professionals, and an opportunity to examine current environmental challenges. Kaizen Recruitment sincerely thanks Andrew George from Elixir Consulting for…
Investment Performance Measurement and Risk Management (iPARM) Forum – 2019
Kaizen Recruitment attended the Investment Performance Measurement and Risk Management (iPARM) 2019 forum, hosted by IBR Conferences over two days. Discussions at the forum explored several key themes, including: Attribution modelling and methodologies to calculating performance; Highlighting the importance of asset owners to improve transparency and ‘measuring to be able to improve’; and The importance…
Kaizen Team Attends 2019 AIST Awards
The Kaizen team attended the 2019 AIST awards event where it was great to connect with so many of our clients including AIST, IFM Investors, HESTA, State Street, First State Super, Frontier Advisors and MTAA Super. A special mention goes to HESTA who dominated the awards winning most of their nominated categories within the areas…
Kaizen Awarded Seek Recruitment Agency Of The Year 2019
Kaizen Recruitment has been announced winner of the SEEK Sara Small Recruitment Agency of the Year 2019. The win reflects a period of particularly strong growth for Kaizen, but ultimately, I believe this award is an acknowledgement of our core values: compassion, accountability and respect. Importantly, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely…
Risk And Compliance Leaders Charged With Raising The Bar On Non-Financial Risk
Kaizen recently hosted a roundtable to discuss the implications of ASIC’s Corporate Governance Task Force Report, spearheaded by ASIC Chair, James Shipton. The task force was established following revelations of significant corporate governance failure during the recent banking royal commission. The roundtable was chaired by Alex Lord, Financial Services Director at Deloitte and attended by…