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Sunsuper teams with Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
Sunsuper has engaged Mercer to provide investment consulting advice and supplement their expanding in-house investment team. The $13 billion public fund manages $13 billion and during the last few years has been expanding its portfolio with a series ...

Mercer Wealth on adviser recruitment spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
Huge volumes of financial advice-related phone calls, numbering more than 1,500 a day, spurred Mercer Wealth Solutions (Mercer) to expand its planning network to include self-employed financial advisers. David Anderson, Mercer outsourcing business leader ...

Mercer zeroes in on ESG managers

Mercer has revamped its manager research process to evaluate the extent fund managers pro-actively integrate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their mainstream investment process. The new research approach will give Australian ...

IC proves value in downturn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... performing consultant for diversified growth portfolios for the one and three year periods to end March 2008 was JANA. Mercer and MLC tied first over the five-year period. For Australian equities, Mercer was the top performing implemented consultant ...

T.Rowe Price grows FUM ten-fold

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... the superannuation fund's specialist emerging markets equity manager based on the advice of its asset consulting firm, Mercer. "There's not a lot of managers out there that have the flexibility and the ability to add value by going across multi cap and ...

Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
The mandate hiring patterns of super funds and investors were on show in the latest Mercer report, which highlighted a renewed focus on currency management, the awarding of larger mandates and the growing popularity of alternative asset managers. According ...

Tasplan awards $42m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... Tasplan Board considered a review of its International Equities Portfolio which was undertaken by its asset consultant, Mercer Investment Consulting. "In order to complete the funding of the new mandates, Tasplan has also terminated one of its existing ...

From PDS doorstoppers to digests

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... marketing, said the reduced PDS was designed to present the information in "plain English". According to Peter Promnitz, Mercer chief executive, firms that reduced their PDS are better able to communicate key messages to its members and investors.

Emerging market funds to be rated on sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... what it calls a first of its kind initiative to boost sustainable investing awareness, and has given the green light to Mercer to conduct a study to determine the ratings. So far, Mercer has commenced interviews with 50 managers based in China, India ...

ANU down $100 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... around $1.3 billion with about an estimated one-half allocated to managed funds, listed equities and listed property trusts. Mercer is the asset consultant. The university also has an endowment bequest fund valued at around $250 million.