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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 ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced that it was divesting from fossil fuels - a tremendously symbolic gesture, given that the endowment fund was founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. These events were the climax of a year in which ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... facilitate more low carbon investment opportunities. It also comes two days after the Rockefeller Brothers Fund - an endowment fund founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil - announced it was joining the Divest-Invest movement.

Harvard receives record-breaking donation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014

Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
New donations into tax effective Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs), have risen 16% to $354 million in the year to 30 June, surpassing pre-crisis levels, according to the annual JBWere Giving Trends Report. The total number of PAFs is up 13.5% to 1,246 ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Towers Watson has described the growth of alternative assets as 'inexorable' following the release of its latest report on the sector. The Global Alternatives Survey, which was conducted in conjunction with the Financial Times, total global alternative ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... disadvantaged and supports the most vulnerable. If we all contribute now, we will build the biggest medical research endowment fund in the world within just six years, a fund that will underpin the health system of the future. If we all contribute now ...

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... held positions with AXA, AMP Capital, ING Direct and NAB Wealth. Most recently she was distribution executive with the Endowment Bond Exchange. Hunter Hall chief executive David Deverall said of the appointment: "I am delighted that Barbara has joined ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... clients, including corporate, industry and public sector superannuation clients as well as charities, foundations and endowment clients. As of 31 December 2013, it advised over 100 clients with assets of $245 billion. This includes $28 billion on its ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... are, he said as he explained how DSM's $6 billion portfolio is 30% sourced from institutional pension funds, 25% from endowment funds and 20% from high net worth investors. In Australia this is reflected in the 96% correlation super fund returns have ...