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Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Towers Watson has appointed a senior consultant to be based in the company's Sydney office. Aongus O'Gorman took up the role on 13 July and specialises in liquid diversifying strategies. O'Gorman was previously managing director of Round Tower Solutions ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... investment managers in Australia has grown to more than US$250 billion ($338 billion), according to the latest survey by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Macquarie in particular has benefitted from a shift towards alternative assets globally and ...

Legalsuper finds savings in manager reshuffle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... equities). Legalsuper took the decision to change managers after a 12-month review carried out with the help of Towers Watson. "We changed asset consultant in April 2013 and since then have been methodically reviewing all aspects of legalsuper's investment ...

Franklin Templeton recruits Towers Watson consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Franklin Templeton Solutions has appointed a solutions portfolio manager from Towers Watson. Felicity Walsh was previously part of Towers Watson's investment consulting team in Sydney and its actuarial consulting team in the UK, Walsh will report to ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... Lundy of Retirement Benefits Fund. The trio are exemplars in their field. Spence built his industry cred while at Towers Watson while Dr. Lundy has been assessing multi-manager portfolios since the mid-1990s, before it was 'the thing' to do in Australia. ...

Nikko AM adds senior executives to global team

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... years of experience in the financial industry and has worked for UBS Global Asset Management and Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson). He was most recently a partner at Ardevora Asset Management. Charles Allard will be based in Hong Kong and has been appointed ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... fund investment teams, with a variety of strategies emerging. At its recent annual Ideas Exchange in Melbourne, Towers Watson addressed superannuation fund CIOs some of whom have bolstered their internal investment capabilities. The asset consultant ...

Towers Watson launches Thinking Ahead Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
Towers Watson has launched a global not-for profit organisation aimed at "influencing change in the investment world to improve the provision of savings." Dubbed the Thinking Ahead Institute, it is open to asset owners, investment managers and other ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... getting little value from active management and must focus on total returns to remain competitive, according to Towers Watson global head of investment Chris Ford. Speaking at the 2014 Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne yesterday, Ford said that ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... world." Eventually he found a job at asset consultant Towers Perrin - the company which would eventually become Towers Watson - in Melbourne. As a cosmopolitan Canadian, he says Melbourne very quickly felt like home. "Melbourne is quite similar to Toronto. ...