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What fundies seek in an asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... 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 as a part of a survey to determine their ...

Industry fund awards $125 million mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
An industry fund chose Dimensional Fund Advisors for a $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 ...

Evidence of "pay to play" in US pension consulting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... political corruption. "To help establish a causal link, we use the adoption of the SEC's pay to play rules for investment advisors in 2011. Post implementation of the SEC's pay to play rules, we find that this relationship weakens considerably," it s ...

Bloomberg launches equity benchmarks

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... across asset classes," he said. Bloomberg will use R-Factor, an ESG scoring solution developed by State Street Global Advisors, for the index family. The new indices focus on industry-specific ESG factors most likely to influence the financial performance ...

Climate change to erode returns: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
A report from Frontier Advisors warns the economic drag related to climate change will wipe out 0.25% of superannuation returns. This is the first time the consultancy has revised its long-term assumptions based specifically on the effects of climate ...

Crunch time for boutique funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... their existing manager has reached capacity, to avoid potential conflict," says Nelson Lam, partner at Berkshire Global Advisors. "Domestically, yes [multi-affiliates may run out of capacity to take on new managers in traditional strategies] but they ...

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 ...

Vanguard pilots new robo offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... Securities and Exchange Commission, Vanguard is launching a new digital-only financial planning service through Vanguard Advisors. The offering, which is being piloted, will be called Vanguard Digital Advisor and will be available to clients of Vanguard's ...

New principal consultants at Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Frontier Advisors has promoted two from its team to principal consultants. Infrastructure specialist Manish Rastogi and capital markets and asset allocation specialist Philip Naylor were promoted to principal consultants from senior consultants. Rastogi ...

More climate risk action needed: SSGA

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
State Street Global Advisors said it has prioritised a deeper examination of ESG integration across its investment strategies as it released its Annual Stewardship Report for 2019. While environmental, social, and governance considerations has always ...