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Mercer appoints advice operation manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Mercer Wealth Solutions has appointed a new financial advice operations manager. Vicky Ampoulos brings over 20 years industry experience to the newly established role, where she will collaborate with group stakeholders and clients to drive growth in ...

GESB launches advice division for members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... Australia's $8 billion public sector super fund GESB has launched a new financial advice service for members, with a former Mercer exec to head up the division. Former Mercer HR Consulting executive, Michael Heffernan, will head up the GESB Financial ...

NZ Govt appoints KiwiSaver defaults

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... providers for its KiwiSaver voluntary retirement savings scheme. The six providers are the ASB banking group, AMP, ING, Mercer, National Mutual Corporate Super and TOWER Employee Benefits. Despite KiwiSaver being introduced by a Labour Government, no ...

Industry funds and master trusts share top honours

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... trust average. ING, AMP and Colonial continued to dominate the Australian equities sector one year returns table while Mercer, AXA, Accountants Super and BT dominated in international equities. Importantly, while the average return for the Australian ...

Zurich reviews managers after DeAM divestment

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... its Australian funds management manufacturing business to Aberdeen Asset Management, Zurich Financial Services has asked Mercer Investment Consulting to undertake a review of managers in its diversified funds series. DeAM's sale of some of its manufacturing ...

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 ...

Perpetual pair head to Challenger

... Macquarie, where he worked for more than a decade. Meanwhile, Chris Durack was an asset consultant for Towers Perrin and then Mercer. Michelle Baltazar

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

... will be available to local institutional investors from this month and is already seeded with an initial $60 million by Mercer Global Investments (MGI). Unlike other emerging markets funds, BlackRock's product is based on quantitative techniques, a valuation ...

IMCA annoints new chair

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... of chair thanked her predecessors. "I'm proud to succeed previous chairs Simon Ibbetson (Standard & Poor's), Tony Cole (Mercer Investment Consulting) and Ray King (Sovereign Investment Research) in leading the IMCA Australia Board," she said. "With the ...

Mercer unveils web-based compliance for super funds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
Mercer has teamed up with compliance and risk management technology specialist InterTextual to develop a new web-based compliance solution for super funds. Mercer partnered with InterTextual in response to concerns raised by a number of its super fund ...