15/02/2010
Merlicek hoped a “partnership” with Russell would develop, pointing out that both were “turnaround situations”.
Indeed, the IOOF CIO is starting with a blank sheet of paper after an acquisition spree instigated by Australian Wealth Management left him with three multimanager teams (Skandia has since been dissolved), while Russell was until recently thought by many to be a spent force in asset consulting, having lost most of its sizeable ‘traditional’ clients.
The chief investment officer of the $150 billion industry super fund says that Hostplus’ portfolio will weather the ongoing downturn in software companies and that moves by a number of large private credit managers to gate their funds are a result of the asset class being offered to retail investors who should not have assumed the funds would be liquid enough to get money out when everybody else is trying to do the same.
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