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Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... management and must focus on total returns to remain competitive, according to Towers Watson global head of investment Chris Ford. Speaking at the 2014 Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne yesterday, Ford said that institutional investors should ...

AFA announces new directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... are Jeff Thurecht (NSW), Chris Browne (Victoria), Dianne Charman (Queensland), David Slovenic (Southern Australia), James Ford (Western Australia) and Matthew Hawkins (Tasmania). Every director on the AFA Board is required to be a practising financial ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... sales worldwide. GM also has production facilities in Russia and announced a five-year, $1 billion investment there in 2012. Ford Ford has less of a presence in Russia than GM does, having sold 105,000 vehicles there in 2013 for a reported market share ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... slightly above the 0.5 per cent forecast. General Motors rose 1.2 per cent after May car sales jumped 13 per cent, while Ford Motor gained 0.7 per cent on a three per cent increase in sales. Apple, which is hosting its annual developer conference in ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... the month accounted for the decline. Part-time jobs increased by 3,400. Recent job cut announcements by Qantas, Telstra and Ford, among others, gave the negativity in the latest jobs numbers an extra kick. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... reports from several companies, including medical device maker Cochlear, combined with Toyota's decision to join Holden and Ford in withdrawing car production in Australia is hurting the local share market. "(Toyota's decision) is having an impact on ...

Towers Watson names global head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Towers Watson has appointed Chris Ford to the UK-based role of global head of its investment business, following the departure of Carl Hess from the role. Hess, who held the position from 2008, will remain at Towers Watson and become managing director ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... than "the A$1 billion allocated from 2015 to 2020 or restoring the $500 million it cut between now and 2015" (AFR). Like Ford Australia - which only last May announced it's shutting down all of its manufacturing operations by 2016 - before it, Holden's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... per cent in September. Analysts expected the index to decline to 55.0. The three largest US car manufacturers, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, posted double-digit percentage gains. Locally,, in economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...