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Rice Warner overhauls structure, makes key appointments

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... Adamson being appointed head of life insurance market insight and Jenni Baxter and Nathan Rivett joining as senior consultants. The superannuation and investments team has appointed Michael Berg, who has over 20 years' global experience in advising on ...

GESB switches consultants from Mercer to JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... Western Australia-based super fund Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB) has confirmed it has switched asset consultants from Mercer to JANA. A spokesperson for the $17 billion, 354,000 member fund, which caters to employees of the state government ...

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... one example, First Super is another (the role I held), and there are others," he said. He stressed the role of asset consultants in the fund's investment strategy.

Kapstream Capital picks up ex-T. Rowe Price head of client relations

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... the ground running and translate our innovative thinking into highly effective strategies to clients, prospects, and consultants." Kapstream Capital is a specialist global fixed income manager with over $6.7 billion in assets under management and offices ...

Towers Watson grows Australian team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... its Australian investments team, a move it says was driven by increased demand. Two of the appointments were asset consultants. Felicity Walsh will join the Sydney office as an investment consultant, while Alek Misev re-joins Towers Watson as a private ...

CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... gain employers not covered by awards. "We've got a sales team for the IFA market that predominantly operates through consultants and financial advisers," she said. "Typically a consultant or a financial adviser will do a comparison of funds on behalf ...

Advice numbers and client claims hit PIS results

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... engagement." It has also internalised the claims management process "to reduce costs previously incurred with external legal consultants and to improve outcomes." The group also gave more information about the ongoing monitoring program that started ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... to meet our clients' investment objectives," he said. The group is now in active discussions with a number of asset consultants regarding its product offering. Australia Ratings is the only credit rating agency in Australia which holds a retail Australian ...

GreySpark consultancy opens in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... firms on their approaches to electronic trading, risk and data management solutions. The firm has grown to over 70 consultants globally, and Sydney has become the newest hub in APAC after Hong Kong (2011) and Singapore (2012).

FEATURE: The myth of the outlook

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... are inundated with investment outlooks for the year ahead. It has become almost mandatory for fund managers, asset consultants, banks, and other financial institutions to publish pieces in which they take stock of the past year and make their predictions ...