Australian Investment Management Survey 2007

• The industry enjoyed another successful year benefiting from robust markets and superannuation fund flows.
• Organisations are experiencing pressure on margins leading to greater innovation and a move to alternative markets.
• The industry is increasingly recognising its export potential.
• Finding and retaining key people is an increasingly complex.
• In order to achieve aspirational growth, investment managers will need to become more customer centric.
• While managers are looking to leverage existing product suites, Treasury’s contemplation of creating a more workable product rationalisation regime clearly remains a welcome initiative.
• The demand for investment vehicles that acknowledge the importance of environmental sustainability is growing.
• Despite growth and innovation, investment managers are aware of the operational risks of increasing their product suites.
• Managing conflicts of interest continues to be a challenging area.
• Lesson learned from overseas is to prepare early for the anti-money laundering requirements.
• The continued innovation and increasing number of alternative products is changing the risk landscape.

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