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Watson Wyatt welcomes ex-Mercer exec

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
Watson Wyatt has appointed a former Mercer executive as a senior investment consultant at its Melbourne investment consulting practice. Martin Goss has made the move to Watson Wyatt after nine years as principal at Mercer Investment Consulting, where ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... will result in the continued decline of traditional low-risk long-only mandates, according to investment consultants Watson Wyatt. The new race for funds under management is instead being fought among unconstrained and absolute return investing, hedge ...

Global pension fund assets hit A$30 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... fund assets in the 11 major markets have more than doubled over the past decade to reach A$30 trillion, according to Watson Wyatt's Global Pension Assets Study. Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, said, "This growth is ...

SG at 9 per cent is enough: Watson Wyatt

... nation's purported savings gap. "There is no one-size-fits-all 'ideal' SG level," said Andrew Boal, managing director of Watson Wyatt Australia. "Everyone has different needs, lifestyle, expectations and risk tolerance, which means that 'adequacy' of ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... According to the report, Access Economics topped the 2005-06 performance tables, with FuturePlus, then Frontier, then Watson Wyatt and Russell rounding out the top five. Rainmaker said, "asset consultant performance was obtained by contrasting each fund's ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey, total assets managed by the world's largest 500 fund managers grew 10 per cent to US$53.6 trillion ...

Watson Wyatt gives ipac global guidance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Building on its current relationship, Watson Wyatt will begin providing ipac with global asset allocation research and advice on global strategies to supplement ipac's own knowledge base. Watson Wyatt will provide information to supplement ipac's in-house ...

Business doesn't buy compulsory healthcare: Watson Wyatt

... the line on compulsory healthcare, according to an Asia-Pacific study released today. The findings were from the Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey, AGEING WORKFORCE 2006, a comprehensive pan-Asia Pacific study that looked at employer attitudes towards healthcare ...

State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... comparative advantage for effective Australian stock selection," said Fabian. Fabian added that the fund, which uses Watson Wyatt as its strategic asset consultant, has almost doubled its funds under management over the last three years to $6.2 billion ...

Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

Asset consultant Watson Wyatt is making several changes to its business model to adapt to the increasingly changing nature of asset consulting. Recently appointed principal Andrew Spence stressed that the core strategy of the group will remain the same. ...