Frontier Advisors is Australia’s leading independent asset consultant. We have been successfully advising Australian institutional investors for over two decades. With some of the nation’s leading analysts and advisors in our team, we provide advice to institutional investors across the superannuation, charity, public sector and higher education sectors.

Frontier has four shareholders: AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and FIRST Super. We now have over 60 people working in our team and more than A$320 billion in assets under advice.

Frontier provides a truly differentiated proposition for the Australian institutional investment market. To evolve with the changing needs of our client base, we have professionals with extensive specialist experience to focus on in-depth research into key areas such as equities, property, debt and infrastructure. At the same time, we have continued to develop and harness broad generalist consulting skills. This balance of specialist and generalist skills, combined with exceptional client service skills, delivers a flexible offering for our clients.

Specifically with regard to ESG, we continue to develop our approach, further integrating ESG factors into the advice we provide to clients.  We are also continually working to embed the assessment of key ESG risks and opportunities into our investment and manager research and actively engage with the funds management industry on these issues.  Managers’ approach to ESG forms a significant part of due diligence by each Research Team.  We seek to understand if managers are genuine in the incorporation of ESG matters, and ESG incorporation is formally assessed as part of our manager ratings process. We recognise that there is no “one size fits all” approach for ESG with tailored advice provided across the client base, given the diversity in our clients’ ESG philosophy and level of specialisation within their internal teams.