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CORRECTION: Unfair 2-and-20 fees cast shadow over future of VCs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... "outperformance" fees despite non-performance. In the world of superannuation where in-house investment teams and asset consultants favour low and flat fees, the private equity model of charging operational cost and a slice of the outperformance does ...

Former FTSE director moves to Vanguard

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... team serves clients across large financial institutions including superannuation funds, investment managers, asset consultants and corporate master trusts as well as other non-super entities such as insurers, endowments and charities. "Our institutional ...

Rethinking the value of asset consultants

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
From being the facilitator and ideas generator, today's breed of asset consultants are fast morphing into self-contained institutional investment platforms. Following a recent restructure, Russell Investments new chief executive for the Asia Pacific ...

Fewer asset consultants dominate super fund space

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
The market share of asset consultants advising superannuation funds is being increasingly dominated by fewer participants, forcing super funds to develop internal expertise whether they want to or not, according to research from Rainmaker Information. ...

William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... superannuation fund market by bringing senior investment and distribution executives to Sydney to present to asset consultants and ratings houses. Head of Australia and New Zealand institutional distribution Alex Francois told Financial Standard back ...

EM fund manager Esemplia explains turnaround plans

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... chief investment officer Aquico Wen who had been at the firm since 1998, will be leaving by July this year. Asset consultants have been satisfied that the changes - which bring additional experienced staff into the investment team - would have a positive ...

VicSuper and Aust Ethical adopt after-tax benchmark

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... the FTSE ASFA Advisory Committee comprising senior level investment practitioners from superannuation funds, asset consultants and investment managers, custodians and tax specialists.

Another former asset consultant joins Cbus

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... on what others are doing, and more on what we think is a good idea," said Fok. If you are totally reliant on asset consultants then this is not always the case, he said. There are no plans to scale back the services Cbus currently outsources to asset ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... he said. As super fund mergers become more common, there will be fewer funds but more demand for specialist asset consultants, Eagleton said. "In response, we have been continuing to invest in deeper and narrower expertise. "Whatever the topic we think ...

Outcomes-based investing is the future for wealth creation sector: AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... being allowed switch between Asset Classes if it means they achieve the return they need to, Henaghan said. Asset Consultants could also play a different role, "Do you need two [groups of] consultants: One to work with the internal team and another to ...