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Frontier reweighs alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
Asset consultant Frontier is reviewing its alternatives portfolios in the first quarter of this year, a move that could potentially pump up to $2.5 billion of new money into the sector. Frontier's deputy managing director Kristian Fok said the review ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... include the use investment themes, such as water. He also predicts the "rise and rise" of active stock pickers and current frontier economies to make greater impacts on investment portfolios.

Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... investors within seven months under its unusual low fixed fee plus performance-fee based payment structure - proof that Frontier's proposed flat dollar fee model has massive insto appeal. The Solaris Core Australian Equity fund (Performance Fee Option) ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Asset consultant Frontier, which has $91 billion in funds under advice, has sent a letter last week to all the external fund managers of its super fund clients to consider charging flat dollar fees, instead of asset-based fees, on their investment mandates. ...

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... investors looking to tap into this market. Chris Trevillyan, senior consultant and head of infrastructure research at Frontier Investment Consulting, agrees. "Certainly a lot of the new products that have come out in the last two to three years are very ...

Where did the money go?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... classes included private equity, infrastructure and Australian fixed interest. Fiona Trafford-Walker, managing director at Frontier Investment Consulting, said the firm is noticing similar trends across their superannuation clients, which include AustralianSuper ...

BUSS(Q) seeks Asian exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... mandate to an Asia ex-Japan manager. David O'Sullivan, chief executive of BUSS(Q), said the fund's asset consultant, Frontier Investment Consulting, has been engaged to search for the right candidate. "The difficulty for us is that the markets have run ...

Russell OpenWorld targets insto investors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... conviction managers, offered through a single manager platform. The funds include a wide range of strategies including frontier emerging markets, commodities, infrastructure and micro cap, with managers usually appointed on a performance fee basis. In ...

BT hires Bolger for research

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... the Australian equity portfolio and the research and investments divisions. He also worked as an asset consulting at Frontier and head of research at Lonsec. "This appointment is the culmination of the significant investment in our research function ...

Frontier hires Unisuper analyst

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Frontier Investment Consulting appointed former senior investment analyst at UniSuper, Brett Chatfield, as an associate consultant. Chatfield worked at UniSuper in the fund's public markets team and, prior to that position, he worked at Lonsec Securities ...