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Mercer to research India

Leading investment consulting group Mercer is to offer its services in India, where it will research India-based asset and portfolio management groups. The company has appointed Rashmi Mehrotra as its business leader for the new venture and as the head ...

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... Diversified Fund, Global Emerging Markets Fund and the VaR8 Absolute Return Strategy. CAAM Australia won a $100 million Mercer Investments mandate into the VaR 8 Absolute Return Fund and a $230 million Global Fixed Income/Currency investment from Colonial ...

AustralianSuper and Mercer now a tag team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
One of the country's largest superannuation funds, AustralianSuper, has recruited global consulting firm, Mercer, as its specialist service provider for its $1.6 billion corporate division. The venture will see Mercer provide administration, call centre ...

Maragiannis joins CAAM

... assets under management (AUM) to just under $1.2 billion. Most recently, it won a seed investment of $100 million from Mercer Investments into its VaR 8 Absolute Return Fund and a $230 million Global Fixed Income/Currency mandate from Colonial First ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A series of Mercer multi-manager funds have been upgraded from 'recommended' to 'highly recommended' by Lonsec after the Mercer team went back to the drawing board to adopt some of the researcher's feedback. Mercer's Income Plus, Growth Plus, Shares ...

Mercer expands RI team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Mercer has appointed six responsible investment specialists to its responsible investment consulting division citing growing demand for the sector. Jordan Berger, Kelly Gauthier, Susanna Jacobson, Eric Gelfgren, Xinting Jia and Megumi Terayama join ...

AustralianSuper selects JPMorgan

... deal is only one of the key initiatives AustralianSuper has made at the start of the year. The group has also appointed Mercer as the provider of administration, call centre and online services for its corporate division. AustralianSuper's chief executive ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... invest in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets, leading to inconsistent returns for SRI investors. According to Mercer research, emerging markets gained 25.1 per cent for Australian investors, more than double the 10 per cent return of major ...

Watch out for 130/30

130/30 or 'alpha extension' strategies will become much more widely used next year, according to Mercer Investment Consulting. Unlike traditional or "long-only" investing, a 130/30 portfolio permits the investment manager to introduce some "short" or ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... their retirement age and while Australians won't openly admit it just yet, we will soon have to follow suit. Tim Jenkins, Mercer's Asia Pacific Retirement Leader said the newly elected Rudd government had little choice but to re-visit the issue. His ...