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Barriers to hedging

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... five (her returns target for fund of hedge funds), your fee-to-return ratio is a bit unfair." Gary Burke, head of Mercer Global Investments, said hedge fund transparency is such a problem he won't use them. "It's very hard for us to actually analyse ...

Mercer appoints senior portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Mercer Global Investments has appointed a new senior portfolio strategist to its Australian investment team. Phil Graham joins Mercer after six years at Access Economics, most recently as head of manager selection on their market portfolio managers. ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

... 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 ...

Mercer awards mandate to INVESCO

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
Mercer Global Investments has appointed INVESCO Australia to manage a multi-strategy hedge fund mandate. The appointment signals the first investment in the INVESCO multi-strategy fund by an Australian investor. Mercer has mandated a 10 per cent allocation ...

BT Financial wins $300m Advance mandate

... added. BT's Australian equities team is certainly on a roll having won $100 million mandates from TelstraSuper and Mercer Global Investments this year. BT national account manager Bryce Doherty commented that BT had been busy rebuilding its Australian ...

High conviction alpha drives Alleron skyward

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... months. Alleron is currently $300 million but shooting towards $350 million on the back of our involvement with Mercer Global Solutions and Advance's Ascalon, he said. "Even though a lot of managers suffered last quarter, we added 80 basis points." In ...

BT scores another TelstraSuper mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... team through this appointment." The TelstraSuper Australian equities mandate adds to similar mandates for BT from Mercer Global Investments and the Timber Industry Superannuation Scheme.

BT scores $100m Mercer mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Mercer Global Investments has awarded BT Financial Group a $100 million Australian equities mandate. The money is to be managed in an active, concentrated Australian equities portfolio and Martin Franc, BT head of sales, said the Mercer mandate is recognition ...

Active managing pays during market correction: Mercer

... performance of the fund managers has affected Mercer's multi-manager strategy, Russell Clarke, chief investment officer at Mercer Global Investments, said, "No, it hasn't. We set a strategy that should hold up reasonably well in this kind of market corrections. ...

Mercer breaks into retail MTM

Mercer Global Investment (MGI) announces its arrival into the retail multi-manager (MTM) market space this week after carving its reputation in institutional MTM 10 years ago. Head of MGI Australia and New Zealand, Gary Burke, said that the $78 billion ...