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Frontier adds consultant from WTW

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
Frontier Advisors has appointed a new director of sector research from Willis Towers Watson. Paul Newfield steps into the lead role after eight years as a senior investment consultant at Willis Towers Watson. Prior to that posting, Newfield was with ...

Stewardship lessons from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... published a paper summarising research on six large asset managers who collectively manage more than US$17 trillion in assets. WTW senior investment consultant Jessica Melville said there has been increased focus on investor stewardship activity in Australia ...

Rice Warner names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... 2016, Rice has been a trustee director of StatePlus. He is also a former councillor of the Actuaries Institute. Boal joined WTW in November 1991 as a senior consultant of actuary and head of retirement, and served in several senior roles over his 27-year ...

Future Fund hires from WTW

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
The $147 billion sovereign wealth fund has created a new deputy chief investment officer role and has hired a senior consultant from Willis Tower Watson to fill it. Sue Brake will join in June as Future Fund's deputy chief investment officer, portfolio ...

WTW Australia asset consulting lead joins super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... nine years before being appointed as chief executive of the fund in July 2018. Taylor served as head of asset consulting at WTW Australia for eight months, prior to which he was a senior investment consultant and portfolio manager for more than four ...

Royal Commission dampens superannuation success

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... the government-mandated pension contributions, a competitive institutional model and the dominance of defined contributions, WTW said. Its achievements however, have been dampened by the findings of the financial services Royal Commission, which dedicated ...

Willis Towers Watson adds cyber specialist

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... establishing the firm's data privacy and cyber insurance service offerings. The solicitor and noted privacy speaker will join WTW immediately, as a cyber specialist, and will be based in Brisbane. Di Marco is set to work across the firm's national client ...

Andrew Boal departs Willis Towers Watson

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... large clients, Australasia and general manager of corporate risk and broking in Victoria. Commenting on Boal's departure, WTW head of international Adam Garrard said: "Andrew led the company with distinction, taking it through a stage of intense integration ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... State Investments ranked 96th with about $84 billion; and AMP Superannuation rounded out the list with about $80 billion. WTW Thinking Ahead Institute global head of investment content Roger Urwin said the scale of Aussie asset managers meant they couldn't ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... Challenger (US$55bn). Overall, Australia's largest fund manager assets jumped more than 18% to US$1.3 trillion year-on-year. WTW head of manager research Dania Zinurova said: "There is an increasing interest from investors in high conviction active strategies ...