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Frontier and JANA join forces to address fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
Frontier Investment Consulting and NAB-backed JANA Investment Advisers have established six principles aimed at addressing fee structures relating to investment mandates. These principles include the use and structure of performance fees, quantum of ...

AustralianSuper to hit $110bn by 2020

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
AustralianSuper intends to triple its funds under management from the current $33 billion to $110 billion in the next ten years using a five-pronged growth strategy, including buying and merging with other super funds. Paul Schroder, general manager ...

Macq Life signs the Teachers Health Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Macquarie Life will provide its new insurance solution, Macquarie Life Active, through a new distribution agreement with the Teachers Health Fund. This is the first time Macquarie Life Active will be distributed through a health fund, after its initial ...

Aviva offers direct SMAs, model portfolios

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Aviva Investors has launched a new Separately Managed Account (SMA) service and is offering investors access to model portfolios based on two of its existing managed funds. The Aviva Investors Dividend Builder model portfolio has been developed for ...

Founder of GSAM quant group to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... that Jones' retirement is the culmination of an orderly three-year succession plan that saw him first step away from an active portfolio management role in 2007. He continued to serve as co-chief investment officer of GSAM's quantitative investment strategies' ...

M&A activity to decline: report

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
An Ernst & Young report concludes that many global and Australian financial services firms prefer organic growth, with cautious attitudes held towards major acquisitions. The third Ernst & Young capital confidence barometer found that while capital ...

Centric Wealth gears up for acquisitions

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... "We will unquestionably take advantage particularly of the M&A opportunities that come to us - and we'll continue to be active in that space." Meanwhile, the firm will continue cultivating relationships with its high net worth clients - the key drivers ...

Fixed fee model in slow burn

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Fiona Trafford-Walker, chief executive of Frontier Consulting, said the asset consultancy has experienced "modest success" in getting fund managers to adopt the novel fee model they proposed more than a year ago. Trafford-Walker said there have been ...

Industry fund members switch to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Industry funds are losing members to self-managed super funds, poor investment performance and lacklustre communication, research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 8,500 fund members found that nearly one in four industry fund members (23 per cent) ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Suncorp Life will sell Tyndall Investments in Australia and New Zealand to Japanese fund manager Nikko Asset Management for up to $128.5 million. Tyndall currently has $25 billion in assets under management, making it the 15th largest fund manager in ...