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Aon hires Russell for FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Aon Consulting Australia has appointed multi-manager specialist Russell Investment Group to manage the firm's master trust's $1.6 billion in assets and develop a range of specialist investment options. Aon Consulting (Aon) Master Trust investment options ...

True Index contains residual risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... investors must realise True Index funds are not immune to extreme market events, according to Scott Donald, Russell Investment Group director of fiduciary research. True Index funds aim to replicate an index by investing in an Enhanced Index fund whereby ...

AUI appoints head of research relationships

... Claire Harding in the newly-created role of head of research relationships. Harding was previously at Russell Investment Group as senior consultant in investment consulting. She has also worked with Citibank in the UK and PIMCO in the USA. In her new ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... in a small cap core product. Quotient Investors was funded within the MDP through a partnership with Strategic Investment Group. As of February 29, 2008, CalPERS had $1.9 billion invested in its Manager Development Program and $382.7 million invested ...

Russell appoints CIOs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Russell Investment Group has appointed Christophe Caspar and Symon Parish to chief investment officers (CIOs) of the Asia Pacific and Australasian businesses respectively following Peter Gunning's promotion. Caspar has been involved with Russell Investment ...

Russell combines retail and insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
Russell Investment Group has merged its Australian and New Zealand institutional and retail businesses under the Investor Services banner. Former head of Russell's retail investor services, Chris Corneil, has been appointed head of the Investor Services ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... expected from Transfield Services, Ramsay Health Care, Dyno Nobel, Challenger Financial Services, Wilson HTM Investment Group, BlueScope Steel, Zinifex, Arrow Energy and Penrice Soda Holdings. On Friday, the Australian share market closed the week in ...

Russell names IC director

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
Global investment and superannuation firm Russell Investment Group has appointed former director of consulting for Russell Canada, Jim Franks, to the role of director, investment consulting in Australia. According to Andrew Lill, director of investment ...

Renewable energy needs super aid

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
Emerging energy market adviser and fund manager Bakers Investment Group (BIG) has warned that the government's 2020 renewable energy target will be unachievable if investment incentives halt in the sector - especially for superannuation funds. BIG has ...

Fear is the poison apple

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... - but the deepest trap lies in their irrational 'fear', notes a behavioural finance expert. US-based Russell Investment Group senior portfolio strategist, Stephen Wood, acknowledged the current global equity markets crisis but noted that the sector is ...