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Mercer adds boutique, adds staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
Mercer is building five research boutiques within the firm's investment consulting business and adding more staff to compete with specialist single asset class research firms. Mercer's boutique divisions cover fixed income, equities, bonds, real estate ...

Frontier hires analyst

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Frontier Investment Consulting appointed Aaron Yew as analyst. Before joining Frontier Investment Consulting, Yew worked at management consulting firm, Strategic Project Partners and has also worked as an intern at Ernst & Young. "Aaron will join Frontier's ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... institutional assets and brought counterparty credit risks more into focus," said Tom Geraghty, European head of investment consulting at Mercer.

Mercer and Callan drop merger plans

COMPANY RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Mercer and Callan Associates have torn up the agreement to merge their investment consulting businesses. In a statement, Callan Associates said both firms agreed to terminate the agreement and would continue to grow their businesses independently. All ...

No bail-out for cash-strapped assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... performing fund, said a leading investment consultant. Fiona Trafford-Walker, managing director of Frontier Investment Consulting and a speaker at yesterday's CMSF conference, said super funds with unlisted property in their portfolio should be prepared ...

IMCA debates investment risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The Investments Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia has invited the heads of various investment consulting firms, including overseas-based expert Don Ezra from Russell, to a roundtable discussion on investment risk to be held in Sydney ...

Mercer buys Callan Associates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Mercer strengthens its investment consulting business further after it acquired Callan Associates, one of the largest consulting firms in the US. Based in San Francisco, Callan Associates provides research, education, decision support and advice for ...

AFM hires RI expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... of responsible investment. Noble is a principal at Sydney based specialist consulting firm, Responsible Investment Consulting and also acts as project manager for the up and coming Responsible Investment Academy. He has previously worked at Cbus and ...

FMs predict comeback by 2012

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... supply and only reliably available to the very best investors," said Carl Hess, Watson Wyatt global head of investment consulting. "Regardless of fund managers' optimism...I think it will be lessons like these, put into practice in 2009, that will give ...

Industry funds turn to listed assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... a back seat as industry funds eye "good value" assets in the listed space in 2009, according to Frontier Investment Consulting. Frontier, which has approximately $97 billion in funds under advice, is taking a cautious approach to the unlisted space in ...