Fund management: Managers in e-beauty parade

In most areas of financial services, internet technology has created efficiencies and levelled playing fields, allowing new entrants to compete with established players and bringing the benefits of price transparency to end-users.

But when the Queensland Investment Corp of Brisbane, Australia, pension fund used internet technology in the process of selecting a manager for more than $300 million in assets earlier this year, it marked the first time that new economy techniques had been applied to a long-unchanged market practice.

Rather than filing through numerous proposals from a range of money managers, the fund used technology to streamline the process of narrowing down the field to a short-list of candidates that suited the performance goals and investment preferences of the portfolio’s trustees and investors.

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