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Prime Value boosts BDM team

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... Australian Equities Manager, Prime Value Asset Management has appointed former adviser partnership manager at Russell Investment Group, Jake Ireland as national distribution manager. Prior to his seven year stint at Russell, Ireland was a business development ...

More risk checks needed for super fund equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Australian superannuation funds should increase their modeling of liquidity risk of their large cap equities at the manager and portfolio level, said a senior consultant. Since the GFC, Australian super funds have forgotten the cost of liquidity, and ...

Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... said. "But even sophisticated internal teams can benefit from having external consultants give their view." Russell Investment's director of investment consulting Jerome Lander says that in the current climate super fund internal investment teams are ...

The demise of asset consulting vastly exaggerated: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Business might be slow, but Russell Investments has said that there are still opportunities for its asset consulting business in Australia. In the first six months of this year, Russell did not receive one Request for Tender, said Greg Liddell, managing ...

Russell ups risk in equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
Russell Investments has dumped five defensive stocks in its latest rebalance of its value index, anticipating growth in riskier assets. Russell reconstitutes the weightings to stocks in its Russell Australia High Value and Australia High Dividend indices ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
A sustainable turnaround in the Australian share market is predicted within the next 12 months, according to a Russell Investments research report. Russell's Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey, which was released this morning, collected the opinions ...

AusEthical announces 64% profit drop

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
The only thing up in Australian Ethical Investment's (AEI) full year results were expenses, with a 64% net profit (after tax) drop on the previous year announced yesterday. Lower revenues caused by a 3.6% drop on funds under management, bad market conditions ...

Farm land a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
Farm land as an alternative investment can be a good way to diversify portfolios, said Nicole Connolly, director of Alternative Investments, Russell Investments Australasia. It is an investment that is exposed to favorable secular drivers, but requires ...

GBST Quant and Russell alliance to foster tax-aware investing

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... the simple Russell methodology. After being approached by many participants in the industry, Raewyn Williams, Russell Investment's director of after-tax investment strategies, regards GBST Quants' after-tax benchmark data for the very first release of ...

Outsourcing helps UK trustees better manage funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... delegation, extending beyond the hiring and firing of managers," said Heath Mottram, head of fiduciary management at Russell Investment in the UK. Trustees will still be responsible, but the fiduciary manager will operate the fund and report to the trustee ...