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Legalsuper appoints Towers Watson

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
Legalsuper has appointed Towers Watson as the asset consultant for its members' $1.9 billion investment portfolio. Towers Watson has replaced JANA Investment Advisers, which had been the fund's asset consultant since 2003, following a tender process ...

SEC consults direct to the public

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US is appealing directly to the public in a review of whether to make new rules about regulatory obligations for broker-dealers and retail investment advisers. The initiative stands in contrast to Australian ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... fixed interest portfolio to better manage what it regards as heightened global sovereign risk. Working with investment adviser Towers Watson, fund manager BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital, VicSuper has customised a ...

AUI stays with OneVue unit registry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has renewed its contract to use OneVue's unit registry system for the next five years. OneVue is an independently owned operator of unified managed accounts. It has been operating its unit registry business since 2001. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... Spain's banks and Italy's bond auction later on Thursday, dragged the local market lower, Francesco De Stradis, investment adviser at Ord Minnett, said. "The market is getting a little bit jittery about the US again," he said. Recent weaker US macro-economic ...

Wilson HTM expands investment team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Baillieu where he was an equity partner and institutional adviser. Robert Ward has been appointed as a senior investment adviser. Prior to joining Wilson HTM, he spent ten years at E. L. & C Baillieu where he was an equity partner and director. Ward ...

AustralianSuper wins landmark IBM mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
AustralianSuper has won Australia's largest corporate super outsourcing mandate to manage the $1.7bn IBM staff fund. Subject to due diligence, current IBM Super members and employees will transfer to AustralianSuper effective 1 November 2012. The tender ...

ASIC moves on insider trading

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Insider trading and market manipulation charges are on the rise, according to ASIC, which gets 200 trade surveillance alerts indicating unusual trading activity each day. Deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Belinda ...

Credit Suisse asset management appoints new recruit

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
Evan Reedman has been appointed Credit Suisse's new head of consultant relationship for asset management in Asia Pacific based in Melbourne. Reedman comes from QIC where he was director, lifecycle strategies and also worked at JANA Investment Advisers ...

Planners must return to strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
Financial planners are acting more like investment advisers and product sellers instead of strategists as a result of rising requirement pressures, according to one adviser group managing director. Financial planners may be losing sight of their roles ...