Market Views: How should instos approach investment insourcing?

The number of asset owners looking to insource investment management and reduce their use of external fund houses by building in-house teams is rising in Asia, as it is globally. Australian superannuation funds, such as AustralianSuper, have been moving aggressively in this direction in recent years, and the trend has become more prominent generally in the persistently low-yield environment. Other names to have set out ambitious internalisation strategies in recent years include…