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Vanguard grows marketing team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... 14 years experience to the role, working with brands such as Industry Fund Services, UniSuper, Social Change Media and Watson Wyatt. "Given the numerous changes to superannuation and the need for quality, easy to understand information, it's now more ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... world but a new study has found that in 2005, Asian and European pension funds have taken over. The 2005 joint survey by Watson Wyatt and US publication Pensions & Investments on the top 20 pension funds has revealed that US funds' have lost their market ...

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 ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... fare will result in the continued decline of traditional low-risk long-only mandates, according to investment consultants Watson Wyatt. The new race for funds under management is instead being fought among unconstrained and absolute return investing ...

Global pension fund assets hit A$30 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... pension fund assets in the 11 major markets have more than doubled over the past decade to reach A$30 trillion, according to Watson Wyatt's Global Pension Assets Study. Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, said, "This growth ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... criteria when assembling portfolios is challenging conservative and out-dated views about how we categorise assets, said Paul Watson, deputy executive director of award winning industry fund MTAA Super. "We've got to try to start a debate about historical ...

SG at 9 per cent is enough: Watson Wyatt

... nation's purported savings gap. "There is no one-size-fits-all 'ideal' SG level," said Andrew Boal, managing director of Watson Wyatt Australia. "Everyone has different needs, lifestyle, expectations and risk tolerance, which means that 'adequacy' of ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... consultant. According to the report, Access Economics topped the 2005-06 performance tables, with FuturePlus, then Frontier, then Watson Wyatt and Russell rounding out the top five. Rainmaker said, "asset consultant performance was obtained by contrasting ...

FEAL appoints three new directors

... The new directors are Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Super, Colin McGuinness, chief executive of NGS Super and Paul Watson, deputy executive director of MTAA Superannuation Fund. "The 2006 FEAL AGM presented an important opportunity for new Directors ...

Borat movie and bank credit demand push Kazakhstan centre stage

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2006
... have grown rapidly through the last decade, driven by high nominal economic growth albeit off a low starting base. James Watson, senior director in Fitch's Financial Institutions group, said, "Liquidity is currently comfortable as a result of access ...