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Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Leading asset consultants were grilled about the value they add to super fund portfolios at an industry conference held yesterday. The results? Refreshingly honest. The heads of four asset consultancies - JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson and Sovereign ...

Introducing Chris Condon Fin Services

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Chris Condon, former chief investment officer of MLC, is currently applying for an Australian Financial Services License to provide investment and governance advice to institutional investors, and help them engage with asset consultants. Condon announced ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
QIC has developed new lifecycle investment solutions aimed at adjusting risk to complement existing investment strategies available to super funds. The lifecycle strategies will be used to adjust the risk faced by a member as he or she approaches retirement. ...

Kosmos wins $50m from Maritime

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
The $3 billion Maritime Super has appointed a $50 million Aussie equities mandate with boutique fund manager Kosmos Asset Management. Peter Robertson, chief executive of Maritime Super, said the fund was in the process of transferring the $50 million ...

AQR receives strong ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... approximately USD$23 billion under management globally. (Includes assets managed by CNH Partners, LLC, a US investment adviser of which AQR Capital Management, LLC is a member).

IBM replaces Russell with JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
The $1.4 billion IBM Australia Limited Superannuation Fund has changed its investment manager from Russell Investments to JANA Investment Advisers. The IBM fund, which had just under $1.5 billion in funds at the end of September, previously engaged ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
The financial planning industry's worst nightmare is about to come true with the Ripoll Report recommending advisers become fiduciaries, payments from product providers to planners should cease and that ASIC significantly step up its shadow shopping ...

AMP signs MOU with China Life

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... license to trade in China 'A' shares. China Life Asset Management Company was appointed AMP's local Chinese investment adviser for the QFII licence in October 2006. China Life Asset Management Company also sources infrastructure opportunities for AMP's ...

Opt out, bailed out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
The latest ruling against three people posing as "financial advisers" when they weren't licensed as advisers at all exposes the flaw in the current legislative regime where unlicensed professionals can operate outside strict compliance laws Marianna ...

Macquarie Private Bank hires NAB specialists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... Private Bank, Australia and New Zealand, key families and division director. The team consists of Fahour, senior investment adviser Cameron Eldridge and senior investment adviser, Andrew Papageorgiou. Fahour returns to Macquarie having left almost two ...