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State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... a comparative advantage for effective Australian stock selection," said Fabian. Fabian added that the fund, which uses Watson Wyatt as its strategic asset consultant, has almost doubled its funds under management over the last three years to $6.2 billion ...

Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

Asset consultant Watson Wyatt is making several changes to its business model to adapt to the increasingly changing nature of asset consulting. Recently appointed principal Andrew Spence stressed that the core strategy of the group will remain the same. ...

Mergers deliver cost savings to members

... difficulty and impracticalities of completing a merger. However, among the audience was AUSCOAL's chief executive officer, Bruce Watson, who said that the merger of QCOS and COAL Super did deliver benefits to members. "On average, we managed savings ...

MTAA's Watson wins Fund Exec of the Year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
MTAA's deputy executive director, Paul Watson, has been recognised as Fund Executive of the Year at the annual Fund Executives Association (FEAL) members' dinner last night. The FEAL award recognises outstanding leadership, achievement and innovation ...

Watson Wyatt boosts investment team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
Watson Wyatt Australia has boosted its investment consulting team, appointing a former McKinsey & Company investment consultant. Andrew Grimes, also one time UK equity fund manager for Schroder Investment Management in London has been working with McKinsey ...

Hyperion wins $230m Auscoal mandate

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
... were "close to new mandates" and would make announcements over the next six weeks. Auscoal chief executive officer, Bruce Watson, said the fund was seeking a lower risk growth manager. "We found Hyperion's philosophy of longer-term investing in quality ...

VFMC gives Watson Wyatt the nod

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has announced the appointment of Watson Wyatt as its investment strategy consultant. From next week VFMC will assume responsibility for setting the asset allocation of its clients in addition, as well ...

No free lunch with high conviction funds: WestLB Mellon

... agreed that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Among the panellists were the senior officers from Russell, Mercer, Watson Wyatt, Access Economics, WestLB Mellon, Julius Baer, Numeric Investors and Catholic Super. "What we've been through in the ...

Watson Wyatt creates dual responsibility role

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
Watson Wyatt has appointed an Australian superannuation and administration services manager in a dual responsibility role to also take charge of quality management for Watson Wyatt's Asia Pacific region. Colette Colman, previously head of operations ...

Watson Wyatt shores up Aussie research

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
Watson Wyatt has announced the appointment of a manager research consultant to its Australian investment management team. Jignasa Patel fills the senior position after moving from an Australian equity managers research role with Lonsec. Jignasa also ...