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Morgan Stanley launches Aus Eq fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... concentrated fund that seeks to outperform the Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index (ex A-REITs) over the medium to long term. The latest Mercer survey of Australian long only equity funds performance in the 12 months to October 31 showed Morgan Stanley's Australian ...

Pensions deficit hits US firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... revise profit expectations after pension plans losses turn a $90 billion surplus into a $420 billion deficit, according to Mercer. According to Mercer's research, the S&P 1500 defined benefit pension plans lost over $200 billion in November, $170 billion ...

Lay-by age pension to plug savings gap

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... the government to support Lay-by style Age Pension and 'longevity insurance' products. A panel of industry experts from Mercer, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Watson Wyatt gathered at an Institute of Actuaries briefing last week to discuss the ideas ...

AXA ramps up group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... most important things for them when dealing with a group insurer," said Bergin. Existing group insurance clients include Mercer Super Trust, OAMPS Super Fund, VicSuper Scheme and a number of its internal super fund offers, Rainmaker Research found. Bergin ...

Snowball FUA grows $700m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... advice changing hands in the past six months. The report identified a number of smaller groups which included Credit Suisse, Mercer Wealth Solutions, Austock and Snowball as businesses busily consolidating over that time frame. In October, Snowball subsidiary ...

Mercer clients gain carbon tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Mercer is teaming up with environmental research firm, Trucost Plc to allow its clients to measure the 'carbon footprint' of their underlying portfolios. The tool is available through the Mercer's Style Research Portfolio Analyser (SRPA) that includes ...

Australian Child Care revamps super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... the fund changed its name to Guild Trustee Services following an internal review of its governance structure. Meanwhile, Mercer was appointed the administrator of Guild Trustee Services and from 1 July, started providing administration, call centre ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Fox, former Aegis Equities Research head; Rodney Lay, previous Colonial First State analyst, Shane Brereton and former Mercer analyst; Sheela Veerappan to the Fund Services team. Among the key hires is head of equities, Tara Bell who returns to Standard ...

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Mercer's investment arm is tapping into the commodities sector with a $35 million investment mandate in H3's Global Commodities program. H3's commodity program returned more than 13 per cent over a one year period to September against the Dow Jones ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... performance last month is a good indicator of who fared better or worse in the face of the ongoing global financial crisis. A Mercer Survey of how managers performed during the period revealed that out of nearly 20 value-biased fund managers, only Grant ...