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Funds management rife with "dressed up" performance data: Cerulli

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... report highlights the lack of clarity investment consultants face when selecting funds; they often "complained that asset managers are submitting back-tested performance data as the numbers of a real fund," according to Cerulli Associates senior analyst ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
Two global asset managers were in Australia recently with the aim of spreading their message about trends in impact investing and its suitability for institutional investors. Sustainability specialist at RobecoSAM Private Equity, Silva Dezelan, said ...

VanEck global infrastructure ETF goes live

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... index has become the global infrastructure benchmark used by industry participants including asset consultants and asset managers and we are very pleased to be partnering with FTSE to offer this ETF to Australian investors seeking stable incomes and ...

Multi-asset products continue to grow

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... predominantly by asset class diversification. However Newman warns that in periods of systematically low growth, even multi-asset managers may be limited in what they can achieve. "With increased volatility and uncertainty, many managers have tried to ...

Mercer Sentinel advising TCorp on custody

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... asset consulting capability to serve client agencies." In June last year TCorp became one of Australia's top 10 asset managers after State Super outsourced its funds management activities to the investment giant. It was the final phase of an amalgamation ...

CalPERS urges Rio Tinto to report climate change risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... (AODP) has launched the Global Climate Asset Manager Index - a set of indices that will rate the world's top 50 asset managers covering 70% of the global market and more than $40 trillion in investments. AODP's ratings will be based on direct disclosure ...

State Street expands in Melbourne

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... Corporation is expanding its Melbourne office to underpin its commitment to servicing superannuation funds and asset managers in Victoria. Commenting on the expansion State Street chairman and chief executive Joseph L. Hooley said: "Expanding our office ...

Australia, a tough nut to crack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... mutual funds market is "arguably among the most highly developed in the Asian region, the challenge that foreign asset managers face in trying to penetrate the market are manifold". Managers will need deep pockets and patience as they will have to contend ...

QIC equities head joins Silicon Valley firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... most recently, chief strategist. Jacobi Strategies uses "proprietary storyboard technology," aimed at assisting asset managers and pension funds with portfolio design. "Jacobi's modeling framework elegantly links allocation and manager views to the client's ...

KPMG appoints wealth management and compliance director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... addition to our Compliance and Conduct team, which covers all types of wealth management clients - conglomerates, asset managers, super funds, custodians, stockbrokers and administrators. "Clients across the wealth management sector face an increasingly ...