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SWFs to reach $30tr in 20 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... funds (SWF) have grown to US$5 trillion but still account for just 6% of world funds under management, according to new research from Rainmaker. The SWF sector has grown 10% pa over the past four years and is on its way to reaching $US30 trillion over ...

As many smartphones as people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... funds and wealth managers to use the emerging channel to communicate with members and distribute information. Market research firm, Telsyte, predicts that more than 20 million smartphones will be used by consumers by 2016 and that by 2014 more Australians ...

AIST working to improve board gender imbalance

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... on super fund boards across the not-for-profit sector," said Cate Wood, president of AIST. According to AIST, recent research has highlighted that while the boards of not-for-profit super funds typically have greater female representation than other ...

IMCA names CIMA scholarship winners

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
The Investment Management Consultants Association Australia has named the winners of its annual CIMA scholarship. CIMA is an academically accredited course that seeks to address the unique demands and requirements of investment consultants and fund ...

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 ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... Sounds familiar? And his is not the only hedge fund that has given up altogether. According to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. a total of 775 hedge funds were liquidated last year - the most since 2009. I'm afraid that until we get greater clarity ...

Schroders restores Aus equities team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... Alex Mears leaving the firm in late March, reportedly to pursue other interests. Heard, formerly a director and senior research analyst for Australian energy stocks at Merrill Lynch Global Research has more than 18 years investment experience, while ...

Telstra Super launches income option

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... specifically developed in response to both feedback from our members and results emanating from a wide ranging member research and segmentation study," said Kevin Moloney, Telstra Super's general manager of development and distribution. "In this time ...

Advisers ready to move clients back to equities

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... of advisers surveyed said they were not looking to reduce their customers' cash holdings in the next 6-12 months. The research suggests that Advisers' ability to make changes to their client's portfolios was largely reliant on both their clients and ...

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 ...