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Changing Demographic Drive Investment Market.(Special Feature--The Mobile Executive)

AUSTRALIA'S INVESTMENT managers cite conditions in global stock markets, the move towards alternative investment products and the globalisation of the fund management business as the key market drivers that will affect their business over the next three years.

For retail investment managers, changing demographic is also a key market driver.

KPMG Australia interviewed 25 Australian-based institutional and retail investment management firms as part of a global survey of 185 investment management firms conducted by KPMG and CREATE.

Many of the issues

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