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Australian Retirement Trust hires Tim Unger

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2023
Australian Retirement Trust has added former Willis Towers Watson sustainable investments lead Tim Unger to its team. Unger has been appointed as senior portfolio manager within the sustainable investments team. The appointment follows ART's recent ...

Willis Towers Watson buys funds from advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
Willis Towers Watson acquired two managed investment schemes from Profile Financial Services, as the latter looks to focus its efforts on financial advice. The two multi-asset, multi-manager unitised schemes have been operated by Profile since their ...

Tim Unger quits Willis Towers Watson

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2023
Tim Unger, the high-profile sustainability head at Willis Towers Watson, has departed after 22 years with the firm. WTW has confirmed the exit but declined to comment further. While sustainability consulting is booming as companies set ambitious goals ...

Selfwealth chief in sudden exit

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... McLennan as the global leader of digital transformation, a role she held for four years. She also worked at Willis Towers Watson, Swiss Re and Brown Shipley. The trading platform unleashed several board and executive changes at the start of the year ...

Rest appoints WTW as asset consultant

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
The super fund has appointed Willis Towers Watson (WTW) as its asset consultant to the board and board investment committee. The appointment will commence on July 1 and follows a competitive tender process that began in October 2022. Rest said JANA ...

Willis Towers Watson names global investments lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
Willis Towers Watson will have a new global head of investments, effective July 1. Diya Luke has been appointed to the role, replacing Chris Ford who is set to retire this month. She has been with WTW for almost two decades, first as an investment consultant ...

Consulting triopoly dominates NFP super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... superannuation sector, serving 84% of the market. According to Rainmaker Information, JANA, Frontier and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) now control 84% of the advised NFP superannuation market. The figure, which is up from 77% in 2020, is reflective of the ...

Corporate fund transfers members to ART

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... completing it in April. The decision to transfer the 30-year-old fund followed a review by Oracle's trustee Willis Towers Watson of both the Oracle plan and other superannuation funds. It cited the enhanced members' services and options a merger ...

Australia survives global pension rout

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
Amid the largest drop in global pension assets since the GFC, Australian super funds held steady with lower bond allocations and Super Guarantee flows. Global pension assets had their largest annual decline since the GFC, dropping 16.7% to $47.9 trillion ...

abrdn head of Aussie equities departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
The head of Australian equities at abrdn, Michelle Lopez, has left to pursue other interests, according to the asset manager. Lopez ran the local equities team for nearly four years after being promoted from deputy head in 2019. Joining abrdn in 2004 ...