Russell is back: wins $10b traditional advisory client

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why UniSuper’s John Pearce thinks the data centre party is winding down 

The demand for AI driving data centre construction might be “insatiable”, but the chief investment officer of the $166 billion UniSuper thinks that investors could be taking on technology debt and misreading the regulatory tea leaves as they rush to buy digital infrastructure.

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