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Watson Wyatt boosts investment team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
Watson Wyatt Australia has boosted its investment consulting team, appointing a former McKinsey & Company investment consultant. Andrew Grimes, also one time UK equity fund manager for Schroder Investment Management in London has been working with McKinsey ...

VFMC gives Watson Wyatt the nod

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has announced the appointment of Watson Wyatt as its investment strategy consultant. From next week VFMC will assume responsibility for setting the asset allocation of its clients in addition, as well ...

No free lunch with high conviction funds: WestLB Mellon

... that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Among the panellists were the senior officers from Russell, Mercer, Watson Wyatt, Access Economics, WestLB Mellon, Julius Baer, Numeric Investors and Catholic Super. "What we've been through in the last six ...

Watson Wyatt creates dual responsibility role

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
Watson Wyatt has appointed an Australian superannuation and administration services manager in a dual responsibility role to also take charge of quality management for Watson Wyatt's Asia Pacific region. Colette Colman, previously head of operations ...

Watson Wyatt shores up Aussie research

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
Watson Wyatt has announced the appointment of a manager research consultant to its Australian investment management team. Jignasa Patel fills the senior position after moving from an Australian equity managers research role with Lonsec. Jignasa also ...

Hewitt eyes investment consulting

... services, is eyeing the investment consulting market, potentially posing a fresh threat to incumbents such as JANA, Watson Wyatt and Mercer. While Hewitt has been running a local HR operation for 10 years, it only started providing actuarial and investment-related ...

Australia leads charge on super assets growth

... retirement savings with 95 per cent growth in assets in superannuation funds over the past five years, according to a Watson Wyatt survey. The asset consulting group's global research also showed that total superannuation fund assets in all the main ...

Sunsuper poach former asset consultants

... Russell Investment Group providing asset consulting services. He has also worked with asset consultants InTech and Watson Wyatt (New Zealand). "As a leading superannuation fund, Sunsuper's goal is to offer the best investment results to its members by ...

AMP poaches senior consultant from Watson Wyatt

AMP's Future Directions Fund (FDF) has poached a senior investment consultant from asset consultant firm Watson Wyatt to take up the position of investment director, international and future directions funds. Sean Henaghan will take on the role of investment ...

US defined benefit scheme shake-out continues

... adopting the 401(k) system. The trend away from old-fashioned retirement schemes is set to continue. According to Watson Wyatt Worldwide, nearly two-thirds of the 1,000 largest companies in the US have a defined benefit pension plan or a traditional ...