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The blame game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... equities. To break away from the norm would risk under-performing. Matthew Griffith, head of portfolio construction and risk at JANA told Financial Standard that while the system doesn't appear to be fundamentally broken, there needs to be an end to ...

VicSuper investments chief joins Hostplus

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... previously Hostplus's head of investment strategy and was named to the deputy CIO role in 2018. He has previously worked for JANA and the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance in Victoria. Last month, Hostplus picked up Kim Farrant from VicSuper's ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... deep due diligence and company engagement with management teams." As for what super funds are looking for in ESG research, JANA says this has evolved considerably. JANA head of responsible investment research Tim Conly said ESG research is still a risk ...

JANA dragged into Rest legal stoush

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
JANA Investment Advisers may be forced to hand over key documents as part of Rest's ongoing legal battle with member Mark McVeigh. Final discovery orders were consented to by both Rest and McVeigh in late December last year. Documents created by ...

Industry fund in investment rejig, lead departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... function, which will see the departure of its head of investment strategy. Following recommendations from asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers, LUCRF Super is set to replace its sector-specific investment portfolio approach with a new "whole-of-investment-portfolio" ...

Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... pressure on active manager fees," Sebire says. The fee pressure is on in institutional land too, but it is not as cutthroat. JANA senior consultant Robert Moore says the asset consultant has been able to negotiate fees for super funds but the fee cuts ...

New principal consultants at Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... March end, according to Rainmaker Research. It has a 25.7% share of the total $1.2 trillion in assets in the market, behind JANA which leads with a 32.3% share of the segment. In June, it made six new hires to the team. Last month, it was appointed consultant ...

JANA hires quantitative applications lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
JANA Investment Consultants appointed a former Victorian Funds Management Corporation executive in the newly created role of head of quantitative applications. Michael Watt was chief executive and principal consultant at PortfolioMetrics for almost ...

Industry fund changes asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... fund has appointed a new asset consultant, ending a 17-year relationship with Willis Towers Watson. LGIAsuper has appointed JANA to act as its asset consultant, marking the third of its key external contracts to change hands this year. LGIAsuper chief ...

JANA hires operations lead, boosts workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
Asset consultant JANA has recently welcomed a new head of operations and made a raft of appointments in a bid to boost its footprint. John Montague joined the Melbourne-based firm in the newly created role after working as a consultant for the past ...