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Towers Watson appoints new director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
Towers Watson, the global professional services company, has appointed Adam Hall as director of its Australian organisational surveys and insights team. Towers Watson is engaged in management consultancy, helping organisations improve performance. It ...

Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... with 17 a piece. Asset consultants involved with most mandates, the Rainmaker research continued, were: Jana (21%), Towers Watson (10%), and Frontier (9%).

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... will need to work together in a stronger partnership to achieve a sustainable investment future, new research from Towers Watson has found. After surveying 22 asset managers in conjunction with Oxford University, consultant Towers Watson said investors ...

15 Aus super funds in Top 300

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... any other country's during the five-year period to the end of 2011, said research by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Growth in assets of Australian funds in the Top 300 funds globally was 7%, which contributed to an annual growth rate for the ...

APRA probe key in NAB case: Lawyers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... related to an APRA probe into NAB's exposure to US subprime mortgages. In an affidavit of Maurice Blackburn solicitor Andrew Watson, which was tendered to the court, Watson said the plaintiffs would contend at the trial that correspondence between APRA ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... security and their future financial wellbeing than their fellow workers in recessionary countries, according to new Towers Watson research. Results from its latest Global Workforce Study (GWS) reveal that more than half of Australian employees (56%) ...

Towers Watson expands equities team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has expanded its Australian equities manager research team with two new hires. Nick Kelly has been appointed as an investment consultant and Matthew Conacher as an investment research analyst in the Australian equities ...

ACSA lends weight to ASIC tech focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... the report accurately reflect the fundamental role played by custodians within the financial services sector," said Leigh Watson, ACSA executive. The association has sought clarification from ASIC on a number of issues, including recognition that custodians ...

Aust funds trail world in alternatives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... shun Asia in favour of more established markets in the US and Europe. The 20% alternative weighting, according to a Towers Watson survey of the 100 leading global alternative investment managers, is almost twice the 12% average weighting across the Australian ...