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Marquee hire for PWC's investment advisory team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... superannuation fund industry investing extensively in public and private assets. Prior to that, St. John worked as an asset consultant at William M Mercer where he was a principal and world-wide partner of the firm.

LGS grows investment committee

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... performance of LGS' investment managers and overseeing the work of LGS' internal investment team and external asset consultant. Durston is currently principal of Edgehaven, where she advises institutional clients on long-term investment strategies, alternative ...

Super trustees must be vigilant about managers: Deloitte

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Superannuation trustees need to actively prioritise implemented asset consultants that add value, according to new research by Deloitte Actuaries & Consultants. Deloitte surveyed six major consultants over the five years to 30 June 2014, using the Vanguard ...

Asset consultants urged to get savvy on carbon risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The investment risks associated with climate change will give asset consultants a major opportunity to differentiate themselves, but as yet very few are taking advantage of this opportunity, according to Impax Asset Management managing director Bruce ...

UBS makes three appointments to wholesale sales team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Investment Partners, Alycia Vassallo will be the new consultant relationship manager, managing UBS' research house and asset consultant relationships. Adam Muston joins the firm from Shaw Stockbroing, and will take on the role of ETF capability manager. ...

Van Eyk spin-off signs first major client

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
InvestSense, the company established by van Eyk's former asset consultant team, has signed its first major client. Sentry Group, a national dealer group headquartered in Perth, has signed up to the new service. Established in 2005 by industry stalwart ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
In the latest edition of Financial Standard we look at the crisis in group insurance and consider the future of insurance in superannuation. We also look at how the trend towards in-housing might be putting pressure on asset consultants to change strategy ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Watson addressed superannuation fund CIOs some of whom have bolstered their internal investment capabilities. The asset consultant said that too much effort is spent trying to identify alpha-generating asset managers and not enough spent on extracting ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... in Queenstown New Zealand.' But it got us thinking about this part of the world." Eventually he found a job at asset consultant Towers Perrin - the company which would eventually become Towers Watson - in Melbourne. As a cosmopolitan Canadian, he says ...

Former GESB head of investments joins JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
National Australia Bank-owned asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers has appointed Bill Dwyer as a senior consultant. Between 2009 and 2014 Dwyer was head of investments at the $18 billion Government Employees Super Board (GESB) in Western Australia. ...