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What fundies seek in an asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
Five years ago, fund managers considered an asset consultant's staff as their most important attribute but in 2019 they attach more importance to their research, says Frontier Advisors. Frontier Advisors asked fund managers of their views of asset consultants ...

Industry fund awards $125 million mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... $125 million allocation as it directs more of its Australian equities assets into screened passive strategies. Christian Super manages $1.6 billion on behalf of its members, of which 23% is in Australian equities. In June, it appointed Dimensional Fund ...

Evidence of "pay to play" in US pension consulting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Top staff at investment advisory firms may have used political contributions to win mandates from public pension funds in the United States until 2011, a new research paper found. Pay to Play in Investment Management, a paper published by William Beggs ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... recommendation, which it published as a part of a November 2018 report on retirement income adequacy. This included Industry Super Australia's Phil Gallagher who called the analysis "deeply flawed", the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Boutique wins industry fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... boutique has won an $89 million mandate from an industry superannuation fund as it shuffles its manager lineup. Christian Super chose Ethical Partners, run by Perpetual Investments' former deputy head of equities Nathan Parkin, as it swapped out ...

Crunch time for boutique funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... distribution partner is not a guarantee of success; earlier this year Discovery's backer decided to retire. The $2.9 trillion super system holds more power than ever before. And it is not afraid to exercise it, switching to passive or factor-based ...

Industry fund appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
A $69 billion industry superannuation fund has appointed a former State Street Global Advisors executive as its new chief executive. Sunsuper has hired Bernard Reilly in the role, making him the fourth chief executive in the fund's 32-year-long ...

IFM Investors boss to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Brett Himbury, the chief executive of the $148 billion industry-super-owned fund manager, is retiring after a decade in the role in a surprise announcement made this morning. Himbury will retire from executive roles effective December 2020. IFM Investors ...

Northern Trust tests waters for ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Northern Trust's Australian business is gauging if exchange traded products could help grow its nascent asset management business in Australia, says country executive Angelo Calvitto. "It is something that we are looking at as part of our broader ...

Lifecycle strategies now mainstream: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Lifecycle strategies hold 40% of MySuper's total $756 billion of assets and are becoming mainstream for superannuation funds, according to new Rainmaker research. Lifecycle MySuper total assets grew 21% in the year to June end, to hit $299 billion. ...