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Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... Watson's Australian investment team in the past year. Towers Watson Investment provides risk assessment, strategic asset allocation and investment manager selection. It is a division of Towers Watson's Risk and Financial Services business, and has approximately ...

Investors turn to dynamic asset allocation

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... not even trying to connect allocations with fundamentals, they are chasing price." Kelly said that strategic asset allocation typically required a 20 year timeframe to be validated which, given the state of the markets, was not realistic to implement. ...

Mercer builds adviser reach

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
Mercer has increased its adviser reach following ANZ's appointment of the provider to its Australian Wealth and Private Banking businesses. ANZ's move to Mercer has the potential to push the provider up a spot to number four in terms of market reach ...

IMCA: Asset allocation future uncertain

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
Discussion around whether traditional strategic asset allocation approaches are still appropriate or whether the industry needs to reframe the way it manages retirement money, dominated an IMCA roundtable yesterday. "There is now more than ever a general ...

Zurich continues Investments restructure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... investment strategist in a move designed to better reflect his current role as chair of the Tactical and Strategic Asset Allocation committee, in addition to responsibility for asset class decisions and fund manager selection. The appointments follow ...

Benchmarks allow funds to abdicate responsibility: Future Fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... directly compared to assess the marginal benefit of where each dollar goes, according to Neal. "A fixed strategic asset allocation has a variable risk profile - quite dramatically variable and in our view we should be going counter cyclical to that," ...

Retirement not an automatic trigger for defensive strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... diversified growth funds have a real return target, such as CPI plus five, without static or fixed strategic asset allocation. "Neither of these approaches is likely to result in the perfect way top construct better retirement investment products. But ...

Market provides opportunities for absolute return investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... Millar said at a media briefing. Standard Life said that while in the past super funds have used a strategic asset allocation to equities which offered the cash-plus return outcomes needed to fund their members' retirements, the current market demands ...

Agile, flexible portfolios big winners for instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... Asia Pacific for Mercer's investment business. "More institutional investors will move to a 'floating strategic asset allocation' mind-set whereby the investment strategy evolves and morphs over time, in order to grasp opportunities and exploit valuation ...

Towers Watson names new head of wealth mngt

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... advice into this region including manager research and due diligence, portfolio structuring, governance, strategic asset allocation and risk analysis. "Danny's appointment reflects our continued strong commitment to the growth of this exciting business ...