Susan Buckley

Managing Director of Global Liquid Strategies
Queensland Investment Corporation

With twenty-nine years’ experience in financial markets, Susan leads QIC’s Global Liquid Strategies (GLS) capability in the successful management of a diverse range of global listed market solutions for QIC’s clients.

Recognised as an innovative, high-performing team of 30 investment professionals based in Brisbane and London, GLS manages approximately $33 billion in funds for 60 institutional clients. Solutions the team mange include absolute return, unconstrained and benchmark aware global fixed interest, incorporating active strategies across interest rate, inflation, currency and credit markets, as well as implementation and targeted exposure management services across fixed interest, currency, equities and commodities.

Before joining QIC in November 2001, Susan held positions as the Head of Strategy for NRMA Asset Management; Senior Vice President at Bankers Trust Funds Management; and Manager, Fixed Interest, at Suncorp Investment Management. Susan also worked as an economist for National Australia Bank and was Director, Foreign Exchange Services with Syntec Economic Services.

Susan has a Bachelor of Economics (University of Queensland), a Graduate Diploma in Economics (University of Melbourne) and an MBA (University of Queensland). Susan is a Fellow, Australian Institute of Management and a member of Chief Executive Women

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Fixed Income Leaders Summit Day 1- Wednesday September 7th 2016

Thursday, March 9th, 2017

08:55 Buy Side Leaders Panel: Adjusting to lower returns, looser monetary policy and tighter regulation- How are buy side heads of fixed income adapting to the resulting investor behaviour and market structure?

With global QE policies narrowing spreads, how is the buy side adapting their fixed income strategies to make up for the lower yields?
Assessing the impact of tighter regulations on the fixed income market place and the knock on affect on the buy side- what can regulators do to help harness liquidity?
Which fixed income products seen the have highest investor interest and yield - what does this mean for the types of products you should expect to invest in and trade?
What types of changes are required to the current market structure to reach an ideal fixed income market model for the buy side to be able to operate efficiently?