ideas Exchange Conference - Australia 2010
Get Smart: Investment Solutions for a Complex World

When the history books on the global financial crisis are written, they will seek to answer two key questions:

• How (and why) did our financial system grow so complex and interconnected?
• What could have been done to avoid the devastating consequences of misalignments of interests between principals—the owners of capital—agents, and everybody else?

At this year’s ideas Exchange (iX) Conference, we will share our latest ideas on how to deal with investment complexity and how investments should be structured to ensure appropriate alignment of interests between all of the participants in the investment process.

Interactive sessions will be used to discuss and debate the key issues that institutional investors will need to successfully tackle in order to meet their return objectives over the next 10 years.

Investors cannot afford to ignore complexity in investment arrangements—instead careful assessment is required to determine if and where it is warranted.