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Prime Super switches custody

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
Prime Super has appointed NAB Custody Services (NCS) after switching asset consultants to change the fund's investment strategy. Prime Super chose Access Capital Advisers to provide asset consultancy services in November 2006, which resulted in a review ...

CSRF drops SIM for AMP

... consultant to provide names of suitable investment managers that could manage the fund's investment portfolio. Both asset consultants recommended AMP Capital Investors' Responsible Investment Leaders Balanced Fund, which the fund decided to invest in. ...

Pinnacle appoints distrib exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... business development manager. In this position, Chambers will be based in Melbourne and build relationships with asset consultants, research houses and major investment clients for the group's boutique firms. The firm is expected to appoint another executive ...

Westpac Staff Super awards $50m to HFA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... a dedicated resource for this area. "Since that time we have seen an increase in the level of interest from asset consultants and institutional investors in HFA offerings, so I think [our efforts] are starting to bear fruit," said White. The HFA diversified ...

HSBC brings alts business Down Under

... will distribute funds of hedge funds (FOHFs) to local wholesale investors and cater for institutional clients, asset consultants and financial advisers. The arm will specialise in absolute return funds nad provide tailor-made diversified portfolios of ...

ME quadruples fixed income FUM

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... an industry super funds-owned business because they have to go through the same 'beauty parade' in front of asset consultants as other funds. "It's not as easy as just simply asking the industry funds [for money]. Obviously we have to go through the ...

Asset consultants change fee model: Deloitte

Asset consultants are switching from the 'fixed fee' for service model to asset-based fees in the face of falling margins and talent shortages, according to new research from Deloitte. The Deloitte survey found that traditional asset consultants are ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... mining, logging old-growth forests and armaments businesses are out. "The normal assumption of fund managers and asset consultants is that if you deny yourself the sections of the investment universe due to non-traditional reasons such as ESG [environmental ...

A new mandate every 12 weeks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... able to offer multi-strategy and global investment products. Keevers said the report also confirms that while asset consultants continue to play a pivotal gatekeeper role, this role is changing as more funds are appointing mandates directly. "Funds are ...

Inhouse investment consulting on the rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... their investments harder but building their own investment teams, so they can work more collaboratively with the asset consultants. "Super funds have become large businesses and have professionalised all aspects of their operations, including investment ...