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FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... organisations when it comes to tracking superannuation fund member's readiness for retirement. In April 2014, the asset consultant started measuring how many members are on track to retire comfortably through the Mercer Retirement Readiness Index. The ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Who's Who in ESG research attended this week's annual ESG RA Research Awards and the results are a mix of good, bad and magnificent. Elaine Prior is a name that needs no introduction in Australia's ESG broking community. Her research into the subject ...

JANA rejigs team after absorbing MLC IM

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... capacity and reinvest it somewhere else." However JANA is also expanding the team in other areas. Patrick said that asset consultant was looking to hire a new researcher for its property team. The organisation will grow its client services team, following ...

Towers Watson wins Kinetic Super contract

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Kinetic Super has reappointed Towers Watson as its asset consultant for another three years following an "extensive review process". Paul Kessell, chief investment officer of the $2.5 billion super fund, said Kinetic Super's investment strategy focuses ...

Invesco appoints head of sales from BT

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Invesco Australia has appointed a former BT Investment Management executive as its new head of sales. Eben Bowditch was formerly a senior institutional business development manager at BT Investment Management and will now focus on building Invesco's ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... long term, investors are rewarded by being exposed to less volatility. "We are pleased that JANA, the largest asset consultant in Australia in terms of assets under advice, has included our value-oriented global equity investment strategy into its Implemented ...

GESB switches consultants from Mercer to JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... fund. JANA, which is part of the National Australia Bank, also confirmed it will now take over from Mercer as asset consultant, but made no further comment.

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Media Super has become the latest industry superannuation fund to announce it will introduce a member direct investment (MDI) option. Media Super chief executive Graeme Russell said the decision to introduce an MDI was made at the board meeting in December ...

Towers Watson grows Australian team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Towers Watson has made three additions to its Australian investments team, a move it says was driven by increased demand. Two of the appointments were asset consultants. Felicity Walsh will join the Sydney office as an investment consultant, while Alek ...

Media Super CIO departs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... other areas in pursuit of our growth plans. "The CEO will be supported by a full-time senior analyst, an external asset consultant and an active, experienced Investment Committee in managing the investment portfolio." Media Super has $3.7 billion in ...