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Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... with 17 a piece. Asset consultants involved with most mandates, the Rainmaker research continued, were: Jana (21%), Towers Watson (10%), and Frontier (9%).

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... will need to work together in a stronger partnership to achieve a sustainable investment future, new research from Towers Watson has found. After surveying 22 asset managers in conjunction with Oxford University, consultant Towers Watson said investors ...

15 Aus super funds in Top 300

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... any other country's during the five-year period to the end of 2011, said research by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Growth in assets of Australian funds in the Top 300 funds globally was 7%, which contributed to an annual growth rate for the ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... security and their future financial wellbeing than their fellow workers in recessionary countries, according to new Towers Watson research. Results from its latest Global Workforce Study (GWS) reveal that more than half of Australian employees (56%) ...

Towers Watson expands equities team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has expanded its Australian equities manager research team with two new hires. Nick Kelly has been appointed as an investment consultant and Matthew Conacher as an investment research analyst in the Australian equities ...

Aust funds trail world in alternatives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... shun Asia in favour of more established markets in the US and Europe. The 20% alternative weighting, according to a Towers Watson survey of the 100 leading global alternative investment managers, is almost twice the 12% average weighting across the Australian ...

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
Towers Watson's institutional investment clients have allocated over $15 billion to Smart Beta solutions in the past five years. Smart Beta, which is actually hybrid of beta and alpha strategies, is an approach that uses a selection of analytical tools ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has appointed Ben Trollip as an investment research consultant in its Australian Investment business. Trollip, who holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Towers Watson has released research that suggests that the investment industry needs a new approach to risk management to align risk with mission. "It is time to promote better risk management over more measurement and we need to be careful not to mistake ...