Frontier Investment Consulting has attracted some young talent from UniSuper’s 20-plus investment team.
Member engagement could hurt super returns: ISN
The Henry and Cooper reviews of the superannuation industry should consider the implications for portfolio construction of having too many active and engaged members, including the prospect of funds being forced to adopt a more conservative asset allocation which coud ultimately hurt their returns, a major industry body has argued.
State Street links Investor Services and Global Markets at the top
State Street in Australia has followed its European and Asian businesses by linking up the Investor Services and Global Markets divisions under the one head.
Former RBA chief gives crisis autopsy
The third annual conference of the Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality – October 28-30 – will see a former Reserve Bank Governor discuss the topic: ‘The Crash of the Financial System: Bad Luck or Bad Structure?’. 
Multimanager ipac has signalled it won’t allocate to passive managers, but will aim to minimise redundancy among active managers as it nears the implementation stage in the review of its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio. Cbus looks closer at risk on its table
With $3 billion in alternative assets, Cbus has begun searching for an investment analyst to monitor the hefty allocations, which account for almost one quarter of the fund’s capital.
Apostle hires offshore for client service role
Third party marketer Apostle Asset Management has hired a former employee of Renaissance Investment Management in the
UK to a client servicing role, and is looking to beef up its global equity
capability by expanding its fund manager line up.
Global macro correlations lower than other hedge funds – research
While many hedge fund strategies are known to be positively correlated both with each other and with the equities indices, some have low or negative correlations, according to research to be released at the upcoming Absolute Returns conference in Melbourne on September 8.
Climate change as an investment opportunity: where to look
Super funds should be ready to treat climate change as an investment
opportunity, not only an investment risk, according to one of the speakers at
the upcoming Australian Super Investment Conference, to be held on the Gold
Coast September 16-18.
