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Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... investment mandates much more closely than they did when such tasks were the responsibility of their external asset consultants. Another driver is that non-correlated returns from alternative investments becoming harder to achieve means institutional ...

Challenger retail annuity sales up 8%, profit down

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... guaranteed 'income layering' has also become more evident among retirement-focused advisers, wealth managers, asset consultants, research houses and super funds." Normalised net profit after tax was reduced by 5.3% to $155 million. Challenger explained ...

Super trustees must be vigilant about managers: Deloitte

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Superannuation trustees need to actively prioritise implemented asset consultants that add value, according to new research by Deloitte Actuaries & Consultants. Deloitte surveyed six major consultants over the five years to 30 June 2014, using the Vanguard ...

Asset consultants urged to get savvy on carbon risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The investment risks associated with climate change will give asset consultants a major opportunity to differentiate themselves, but as yet very few are taking advantage of this opportunity, according to Impax Asset Management managing director Bruce ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... of insurance in superannuation. We also look at how the trend towards in-housing might be putting pressure on asset consultants to change strategy and profile Lonsec Fiscal Holding's joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie. You can read these articles ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Asset consultants are jostling for position in a bid to combat the in-housing of super fund investment teams, with a variety of strategies emerging. At its recent annual Ideas Exchange in Melbourne, Towers Watson addressed superannuation fund CIOs some ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... funds, UniSuper. Just over a year on, he catches up with James Fernyhough to talk retirement income, the value of asset consultants, and the future of super in modern awards. Kevin O'Sullivan has lived in Melbourne for the last 24 years, but his accent ...

Former van Eyk asset consultants to launch new business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Former van Eyk asset consulting team Jonathan Ramsay, Jonathan Tolub and Fil Andronaco are on track to launch a new portfolio construction advice company later this month. The three men resigned from the troubled financial services research company ...

Frontier makes three key appointments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... fund-owned asset consultant Frontier Advisors has made three appointments despite what it calls a 'tight' market for asset consultants. Current Frontier consultant Justine O'Connell has been promoted to the role of senior consultant. She has been at ...

Movers and shakers

... consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their posts but van Eyk declined to explain the circumstances. The company has appointed ...