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15 Aus super funds in Top 300

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... any other country's during the five-year period to the end of 2011, said research by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Growth in assets of Australian funds in the Top 300 funds globally was 7%, which contributed to an annual growth rate for the ...

APRA probe key in NAB case: Lawyers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... related to an APRA probe into NAB's exposure to US subprime mortgages. In an affidavit of Maurice Blackburn solicitor Andrew Watson, which was tendered to the court, Watson said the plaintiffs would contend at the trial that correspondence between APRA ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... security and their future financial wellbeing than their fellow workers in recessionary countries, according to new Towers Watson research. Results from its latest Global Workforce Study (GWS) reveal that more than half of Australian employees (56%) ...

Towers Watson expands equities team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has expanded its Australian equities manager research team with two new hires. Nick Kelly has been appointed as an investment consultant and Matthew Conacher as an investment research analyst in the Australian equities ...

ACSA lends weight to ASIC tech focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... the report accurately reflect the fundamental role played by custodians within the financial services sector," said Leigh Watson, ACSA executive. The association has sought clarification from ASIC on a number of issues, including recognition that custodians ...

Aust funds trail world in alternatives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... shun Asia in favour of more established markets in the US and Europe. The 20% alternative weighting, according to a Towers Watson survey of the 100 leading global alternative investment managers, is almost twice the 12% average weighting across the Australian ...

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
Towers Watson's institutional investment clients have allocated over $15 billion to Smart Beta solutions in the past five years. Smart Beta, which is actually hybrid of beta and alpha strategies, is an approach that uses a selection of analytical tools ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has appointed Ben Trollip as an investment research consultant in its Australian Investment business. Trollip, who holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Towers Watson has released research that suggests that the investment industry needs a new approach to risk management to align risk with mission. "It is time to promote better risk management over more measurement and we need to be careful not to mistake ...

Private markets providing solid returns

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... than portfolios invested exclusively in a traditional mix of public stock and bonds, according to new research by Towers Watson. In the research, 'Investing in Private Markets' the company asserts that many long-term investors do not take full advantage ...