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Westpac moves to wholly own Ascalon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
Westpac Group has bought Kaplan Equity's 50 per cent stake in Ascalon Capital Managers to wholly own the boutique incubator. Westpac Group said it had reached an in-principle agreement with Kaplan Equity in a transaction that is expected to be completed ...

LGS appoints Mercer as consultant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The $6 billion NSW-based Local Government Super has appointed Mercer as its new asset consultant to replace Intech Investments. "Our evaluation of the asset consultant market identified several synergies between the Mercer and LGS models," said Peter ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... managers. Bernstein Global Value was the only international equity manager that remained from the original line up. Asset consultant Mercer Sentinel oversaw the $230 million transition, a sum that represents 20 per cent of the fund's FUM at the end of ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Looking for the next investment trend? Eastern Europe could be the answer, with one asset manager's flagship fund returning more than 20 per cent annualised since inception. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive at East Capital Asia, said while a long-term ...

Advisers put LPTs back on watchlist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... Westfield for instance, is continuing to draw interest from the planner community, said Toll. David Klug, senior asset consultant with MLC Implemented Consulting, said the recent spat of capital raisings was one of the drivers of advisers' rekindled ...

IAG & NRMA fund rejigs insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... environmental factors. According to the fund, expertise in these areas were a key factor in selecting Mercer as the asset consultant to the IAG & NRMA Superannuation Plan. At the investment front, the fund invested in the Invesco Wholesale Global Property ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Schroeder said OneVue will provide administration services for the product, but that they've engaged an independent asset consultant - Rob McGregor - to consult on the strategies within the product. OneVue's head of transition strategy, Brett Marsh ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... collection later this year. Historically, super funds would outsource the investment selection decision to their asset consultant and then use a custodian to aggregate and report on the investments selected. These can be a variety of data including shareholdings ...

Media Super names CIO

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... in by getting a CIO on board," he said. In his new CIO role, Glass will be working closely with Media Super's asset consultant Frontier Investment Consulting. Prior to the appointment, Glass ran his own investment advisory firm FineAnswers. He has held ...

AvSuper appoints JANA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... consultant. The appointment follows a benchmarking review of various investment consultants. AVSuper's previous asset consultant was Russell Investment Group, Rainmaker Information data showed. AvSuper commissioned the review which was conducted over ...