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GESB switches consultants from Mercer to JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... Western Australia-based super fund Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB) has confirmed it has switched asset consultants from Mercer to JANA. A spokesperson for the $17 billion, 354,000 member fund, which caters to employees of the state government ...

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... one example, First Super is another (the role I held), and there are others," he said. He stressed the role of asset consultants in the fund's investment strategy.

Towers Watson grows Australian team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... its Australian investments team, a move it says was driven by increased demand. Two of the appointments were asset consultants. Felicity Walsh will join the Sydney office as an investment consultant, while Alek Misev re-joins Towers Watson as a private ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... to meet our clients' investment objectives," he said. The group is now in active discussions with a number of asset consultants regarding its product offering. Australia Ratings is the only credit rating agency in Australia which holds a retail Australian ...

FEATURE: The myth of the outlook

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... are inundated with investment outlooks for the year ahead. It has become almost mandatory for fund managers, asset consultants, banks, and other financial institutions to publish pieces in which they take stock of the past year and make their predictions ...

Prime Super and HIP to merge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... portfolios together is a fantastic opportunity to review asset allocation," he said. The funds have different asset consultants - Prime uses Access Capital Advisers, while HIP uses JANA. Bernays said that initially Access Capital would be the primary ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... teams that help them do that." He said this trend increases the demand of industry funds for the expertise of asset consultants. Maloney said the trend that has seen investment experts in the retail and fund management sector moving across to the industry ...

Star manager Tagliaferro adopts "mentor role"

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... seen the market evolve to one that is now too focused on the short-term. "I still get nervous when I meet with asset consultants because we have to hang up our performance numbers for everyone to see. We buy stocks for the long-term but people ask searching ...

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
Asset consultants' advice on a particular fund does not guarantee better investment returns and, in fact, recommended funds tend to perform worse than those which have not been recommended, a research by the Oxford University SaA-d Business School found. ...

HUB24 adds Perpetual SMA to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... 150 of SMA managed portfolios on the investment and superannuation platform managed by 45 investment managers, asset consultants and dealer groups. This is in addition to the more than 800 wholesale managed funds, 1,000 listed securities and multiple ...