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Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... to invest in Asia. "We're attached as a beta to China," State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills says. "But ours is a horrendously bad index," he adds, in reference to the Australian Securities ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific tells Laura Millan that he has learnt to relax watching Youtube videos of economists. "It's almost appalling," ...

High expectations suggests need for retirement advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... 90-years-old. Of these, 200 were superannuants between 22 and 44. SSGA senior managing director and Investment Solutions Group chief investment officer, Dan Farley, said when looking at the uncertainty around retirement or what people worry about "there ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... disengaged with your super, ironically it can be good," State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills said. Wills said that the problem is "when you get to 67 you don't tend to be disengaged." Quoting ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... going to have any chance of meeting their long-term return expectations," Mark Wills, head of SSGA's investment solutions group for Asia Pacific, said. "But their confidence in being able to weather a sharp correction is potentially misplaced. As we ...

Defensive pension pots just won't last

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... an additional eight years, before their savings run out. Mark Wills, the Asia Pacific head of SSGA's Investment Solutions Group, said many retirees are not comfortable with holding larger proportions of growth assets and are inclined to take what they ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... estate manager. The Goldman Sachs Group is the largest private equity manager in the ranking on $60bn with Carlyle Solutions Group as the top PEFoF manager with $48bn. Blackstone is the largest FoHF manager with $54bn, while Bridgewater Associates is ...

Premium Wealth adds QLD boutique practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
Premium Wealth Management has added Queensland-based practice Total Solutions Group to its dealer group membership base. Total Solutions Group is the advice arm of Save on Tax accounting firm and was born to service the financial and lending needs of ...

UBS grants advisers access to industry funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... fund members are able to directly manage their share, ETF, term deposits and cash investments," UBS Platforms Solutions Group head of strategy and distribution Paul Souter said. "Our industry fund clients constantly look at ways to provide their members ...

SSgA launches cheap lifestyle funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
... overlay to mitigate against the effect of short-term volatility. They do this by combining what SSgA investment solutions group chief investment officer Dan Farley described as "three lines of defense". This starts with the strategic asset allocation ...