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Model portfolios vulnerable to avoidable risks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... manager selection to analyse whether the portfolio is vulnerable to certain threats. Jonathan Ramsay, head of asset consulting at van Eyk said that surprisingly, many of the model portfolios used by advisers are vulnerable to profound or sudden market ...

CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... dynamic in a super fund and trustee boards will need to adjust how they manage their fund. "Risk assessment is not asset consulting, it doesn't recommend investment strategy. Instead it's only concerned with factors that are impacting the likelihood ...

Australia CEO axed in Russell restructure

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Russell realises the full potential of this market opportunity," he said. Russell Investments Australia's head of asset consulting Jerome Lander also recently left the company, along with head of alternatives Nicole Connolly, Sydney-based director of ...

Another former asset consultant joins Cbus

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... investment strategy Kristian Fok. The position was openly tendered. Fok said that: "Brett's experience in asset consulting and his strong understanding of the Cbus investment philosophy made him the ideal candidate for this role." Before taking his ...

MAIB appoints Towers Watson to manage $1.2bn in investments

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... Watson appointment - which is for an initial five years - replaces Mercer Investment Consulting which has provided asset consulting services to the MAIB since 2007. Commenting on the appointment, Roche said that the MAIB conducted the tender as part ...

The demise of asset consulting vastly exaggerated: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Business might be slow, but Russell Investments has said that there are still opportunities for its asset consulting business in Australia. In the first six months of this year, Russell did not receive one Request for Tender, said Greg Liddell, managing ...

Asset consultants still in demand

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... is not due to less demand, said Mercer principal Simon Eagleton. Minor changes were recently made to Mercer's asset consulting unit, which resulted in the loss of one consulting role, as well as two Australian based-research roles that were part of the ...

Frontier Advisors makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... commitment to this key area of our client portfolios," she added. Frontier is one of Australia's largest institutional asset consulting firms, with $125 billion in funds under advice.

Outsourcing helps UK trustees better manage funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... occurred within Australian not-for-profit super funds between 2005 and 2010 when traditional business models of asset consulting first came under pressure. The poll found that of the two thirds of the UK funds which do not currently use a fiduciary manager ...

Conflicts of interest worry ASIC

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... asset consultants in an update of its 'managing conflicts of interest' regulation to provide guidance to the asset consulting industry. Tanzer regards the advice that asset consultants provide to superannuation trustees and responsible entities as integral ...