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Frontier appoints four new analysts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... Frontier Investment Consulting managed to secure the $28 billion StateSuper contract, the largest superannuation asset consulting contract at the time. Frontier Investment Consulting is one of Australia's largest institutional asset consulting firms ...

Barriers to hedging

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... obstructions of high fees, low transparency and poor liquidity are removed, according to JANA managing director of asset consulting Ken Marshman. Increasing superannuation fund investment through fund of hedge funds (FOHFs) mean they now account for ...

Mercer appoints alternatives specialist

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
... Towers Perrin. He co-founded Quentin Ayers where he worked between 1995-2002. "Having worked on a wide range of asset consulting assignments for major Australian, New Zealand and Asian superannuation funds, as well as other financial institutions, David ...

Former FuturePlus head gets in the Grove

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... also previously been a chairman of the fund Executives Association Limited (FEAL). "Grove is a well-respected asset consulting group with its own wholesale web-based investment platform. It's also a leader in supplying non-conflicted advice to risk-averse ...

PIMCO creates new head of consultant relations role

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... consultants. "This new appointment demonstrates our on-going commitment to align our business with the needs of the asset consulting community and to provide sophisticated research capacities to them." Wilson said the current environment would spawn ...

MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... Corporation and the South African Government. Klug is tasked with business development focusing on strategic asset consulting to MLC's wholesale clients.

Skandia buys Intech to form $13b platform and research co

... acquisition is proof that we are committed to this market". However, the deal does put a question mark on Skandia's asset consulting deal with Mercer. "At this point in time, we currently use Mercer as our asset consultant. There is no reason to change ...

Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

... Watson Wyatt is making several changes to its business model to adapt to the increasingly changing nature of asset consulting. Recently appointed principal Andrew Spence stressed that the core strategy of the group will remain the same. They will continue ...

Schroders welcomes new CEO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
... opportunity to continue to grow the business." Prior to joining Schroders in 2000, Cooper was head of the actuarial and asset consulting practice at Towers Perrin Hong Kong.

Staff churn at 452

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... Jana's chief executive officer, John Coombe, confirmed both Thompson and Hughes' departures, but both he, Intech Asset Consulting's head manager of research, Fraser Murray, and Mercer all declined to comment on the impact it may have on the fund. Morgan ...