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Industry funds hit by investment team walkout

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... after billions in various Australian industry fund investments, walked out on the firm. Commenting on the departure, Frontier Investment Consultants' Fiona Trafford-Walker confirmed that, "Certainly there have been staff changes. Key staff managing the ...

Carbon trading gets competitive hedge

Hedge fund giant Man Investments has released a new report revealing carbon trading markets as the next frontier for the hedge fund sector. According to the World Bank, the international carbon market is trading more than $30 billion ($US 25 million) ...

Overseas investors target Aussie super fund cash flows

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
... Australian super funds as they look to profit from the huge cash flows on offer, according to deputy managing director of Frontier Investment Consulting, Kristian Fok. Fok said that the Australian market is very attractive, as it offers smaller funds ...

Japan and Europe the next LPT frontiers: APN

Property fund manager APN Funds Management said Japan and Europe will give the listed property trust (LPT) sector its second wind following the industry's boom in Australia and the US. Pete Morrisey, APN's latest recruit and formerly a Lonsec senior ...

ACT Govt to announce investment review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... enough that excess returns over budget expectations become a fiscal bonus to the ACT Budget. SPA is currently advised by Frontier Investment Consulting with mandates currently awarded to Vanguard, Macquarie, Wellington, West LB Mellon, Alliance Bernstein ...

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... servants. As at 31 December 2006 the fund had $2 billion invested in over 2,100 domestic and international companies. Frontier Investment Consulting is the ACT Government's asset consultant for the fund. No one at Frontier was available for comment.

JUST Super and Print Super to merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... over the last one and three years while Print Super achieved 12.2 per cent and 13.8 per cent per annum. However, with Frontier being the asset consultant for JUST Super and Mercer being the consultant for Print Super, while JUST Super's administrator ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... asset consultant. According to the report, Access Economics topped the 2005-06 performance tables, with FuturePlus, then Frontier, then Watson Wyatt and Russell rounding out the top five. Rainmaker said, "asset consultant performance was obtained by ...

Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... estimated 300 per cent in the last few years in the US. Leibowitz said Morgan Stanley's research found the "efficient frontier" for active extension develops where extending by 10 per cent may be too much trouble for too little impact while a 50 per ...

STA and ARF post record returns

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... investment officer of AustralianSuper, Mark Delaney, also attributed much of the positive performance to their advisers, Frontier and Jana. "It also demonstrates that being a big fund is certainly no impediment to good returns," he said. Rainmaker data ...