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La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
The La Trobe Australian Mortgage Fund has been awarded a "Strong" rating from Australia Ratings. In its first rating from Australia Ratings, A the rating was given due to a number of operational components, performance, financial adequacy and stability ...

Towers Watson sees spike in smart beta uptake

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
Asset consultant Towers Watson saw client global uptake of smart beta investment strategies more than double in 2013 to $11 billion in new investments. This compares with around $5 billion new investments the previous year. Overall, Towers Watson's ...

FEATURE: The myth of the outlook

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
Languishing beneath a pile of seasonal investment outlooks, James Fernyhough asks, does anyone really have a clue about what to expect for 2014? In the eerily quiet lull between Christmas and Australia Day, as the financial services community goes into ...

Prime Super and HIP to merge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... JANA continuing to provide "some services". He said there would be a review down the line to appoint a single asset consultant. Bernays said that, while the merger will increase scale, at $2.4 billion, they would not be a 'megafund' such as AustralianSuper ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... arrangements at a corporate level. "There's so much intermediation in the industry," he added. "There'll be an asset consultant in between a trustee and an investment manager." He also brought up the topic of trustee expertise. "There are a range of ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
Industry fund-owned asset consultant Frontier Advisors has appointed former head of Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) Property Tim Stringer as a senior consultant in its real assets team. Stringer, who moves to Frontier from a position ...

Super funds shun Aussie managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... global equities mandates awarded respectively, the 2013 financial year saw just 41 mandates awarded. JANA is the asset consultant that has awarded the lion's share of global equity mandate funds to managers in the last three years. Chief executive Ian ...

Star manager Tagliaferro adopts "mentor role"

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
Australian funds management stalwart Anton Tagliaferro has said he has adopted "more of a mentor role" and is looking to develop talent from within Investors Mutual Limited (IML). IML is celebrating its 15th Anniversary this year and the domestic equities ...

Premium appoints Ibbotson as asset consultant

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
Asset consultants' advice on a particular fund does not guarantee better investment returns and, in fact, recommended funds tend to perform worse than those which have not been recommended, a research by the Oxford University SaA-d Business School found. ...