Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 201 - 210 of 666 results for "Asset consultant"

Super Fund of the Year named

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... won in the risk-adjusted performance category. On the asset consulting side, Frontier Advisors was named Best Asset Consultant. Meanwhile, each year SelectingSuper recognises an industry veteran for their contribution to the super sector and this year ...

Governance experts join boutique

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
Two well-known governance experts have joined MGD, a growing boutique financial services firm. Michael Drew has been appointed as chief investment officer and director and Adam Walk will join the firm as director, investment advisory. In their new roles ...

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has launched its first Australian-domiciled fund and appointed a responsible entity. The Global Equities Focus Fund (GEFF) will launch this month and "capture only the best investment ideas from the world's top global ...

Industry fund appoints interim investment chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... Australian Unity as head of portfolio management. He previously served at Frontier Investment Consulting as a senior asset consultant, and sat on the investment committee of the Financial Services Council for two years.

Chief investment officer leaves industry fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... Australian Unity as head of portfolio management. He previously served at Frontier Investment Consulting as a senior asset consultant, and sat on the investment committee of the Financial Services Council for two years. Earlier this year legalsuper grew ...

Frontier veteran to depart

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
The $380 billion asset consultant is bidding farewell to Fiona Trafford-Walker after nearly 25 years with the business. Trafford-Walker was appointed as Frontier's managing director in 2000 when it separated from Industry Fund Services and stayed ...

What fundies seek in an asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
Five years ago, fund managers considered an asset consultant's staff as their most important attribute but in 2019 they attach more importance to their research, says Frontier Advisors. Frontier Advisors asked fund managers of their views of asset consultants ...

New principal consultants at Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... Casuscci from associate to consultant. Frontier Advisors now has 18 principal consultants. It is the second-largest asset consultant in Australia, advising on over $320 billion of assets in the not-for-profit superannuation segment in traditional asset ...

Eaton Vance hires institutional distribution head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
Eaton Vance hired an institutional sales director for its Australian and New Zealand operations. Ty Thurgood has joined the global asset manager's Australasian arm as director of institutional business development for the local region, which will ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
Research house Rice Warner has openly questioned whether superannuation funds should begin resetting the return expectations of members. With difficult economic headwinds prevailing, Rice Warner is concerned superannuation funds have made a rod for ...