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Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

Risk management top worry for asset owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Risk management becoming more complex is seen as the biggest challenge among global asset owners over the next 12 months according to recent data published by BNP Paribas Securities Services. A risk survey of 177 asset owners from 19 countries, including ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Future Fund ranked worst in managing climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received ...

APAC asset managers to invest heavily in data

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
State Street research suggests that asset managers in the Asia-Pacific region will significantly increase their investment in data management and analytics over the next three years. Based on a survey conducted by Longitude Research, which polled 400 ...

Asian institutions not using asset consultants

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
Asian institutional investors aren't making as much use of asset consultants as their US and European peers, according to research by Cerulli Associates. Cerulli's Asian Business Strategies: Making the Breakthrough report explains that where asset consultants ...

Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The term 'managed account' in Australia is usually associated with retail investment but one global technology and investment administration group has been using the structure to more efficiently manage institutional alternatives investments. Bruce ...

BNP Paribas pinches senior JPM custody exec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Global custodian BNP Paribas Securities Services has poached J.P. Morgan's custody and fund services head of product. David Braga will join the company as head of Australia and New Zealand in mid-May. He has 25 years' experience in the financial services ...

Asset owners throwing money away in hidden fees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... performance fee, they may overlook how the performance fee is calculated," he said. Once Novarca has identified where an asset owner can shave costs it then acts to reduce them. "We are trained negotiators, much like the asset managers. Asset owners ...

Big changes on way for pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... providers has improved; it's now a two-way conversation, not a one-way presentation," said Pearce. This switch from asset owner to asset managers is seeing some very complex hybrid organisations emerge, noted the report. For example, the Canadian Pension ...

Towers Watson launches Thinking Ahead Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
Towers Watson has launched a global not-for profit organisation aimed at "influencing change in the investment world to improve the provision of savings." Dubbed the Thinking Ahead Institute, it is open to asset owners, investment managers and other ...