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Berends joins QSuper investment committee

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Berends also holds the position of chair of the Investment Management Consultants Association. She recently resigned her position on the board of the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) after serving ...

IMCA adds five new directors

IMCA ANNOUNCEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) has added five new members to its board. The new members are: Brett Elvish, founder and director of Financial Viewpoint; Gareth Abley, head of asset consulting at MLC Implemented Consulting; Greg ...

Future Fund targets credit assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... small to medium sized companies. That's a very interesting area," he said at the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Conference last week. Besides the US lending market for SMEs, the fund has also started investing in the distressed ...

Future Fund to grow investments team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... cash-heavy fund scours the markets for more investment opportunities. Speaking at the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) this week, David Neal, chief investment officer at the Future Fund, said the fund has a small investment team compared ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... University Stern School of Business, was speaking at a roundtable organised by the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia early this week.

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... corporate trust charges 0.71 per cent overall, charging members 0.24 per cent on admin fees and 0.47 per cent on investment management fees. This 0.71 per cent fee is much lower than an average US defined contribution fund fee, which is around 1.02 per ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... boards is misdirected, according to a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), Lynn Ralph, managing director at Cameron Ralph, said focussing on executive remuneration is not effective in changing ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... Aussie equities], there is quite compelling evidence of alpha and outperformance and additional returns from active management," said Eagleton. The reason Mercer is particularly flagging active management now is due to the substantial dislocation in ...

ESI Super and Workcover NSW bag CIMA scholarships

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... course. The course forms the internationally recognised core accreditation of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), based in the US since 1988. "The quality of the applicants for the 2009 CIMA scholarship was outstanding. This highlights ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... last month and participated in a roundtable discussion on risk management by the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia. The transcript of the discussion is on www.imca.org.au