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icare board appoints Willment

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
Mercer Australia chief investment officer Kylie Willment has joined the board of workplace insurer, icare. Willment is a new non-executive director, joining alongside Viriginia Malley who is currently deputy chair of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation ...

Mercer superannuation executive resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
A long-serving Mercer superannuation executive has left the firm to focus on board directorships. Jo-Anne Bloch was most recently a senior partner and head of superannuation services at Mercer, a role she held for less than a year. In her early years ...

Mercer hires regional endowments lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... how endowments and foundations are looking at themselves and the investment world as it expands and shrinks." Mercer investments leader for the Pacific Simon Eagleton said clients will benefit from Dunn's expertise and deep passion for the not-for-profit ...

Retail funds to benefit from YFYS test changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... improvement are Toyota Super (9bps), BT Super and AFLPA & AFL Industry MySuper from AMP (8bps each), TWU Super (7bps), and Mercer WGSP and Virgin Money (6bps each). MLC, Commonwealth Essential Super, Qantas's Glidepath and Mercy Super will see an improvement ...

CFS appoints risk chief from MLC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... including as the mergers and acquisitions lead for a number of divestment initiatives. Lane also spent almost 15 years at Mercer, holding senior roles in Sydney and London. After joining the firm in 2001, he was an investments lawyer and consultant to ...

Frontier hires former Perpetual head of infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
... in the space, behind JANA which had a 31.7% slice, and ahead of international consultants such as Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Russell. In recent years it has looked to diversify both its client base and offering, as its traditional clientele of ...

New equality push in investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021
... linking the pay of relevant staff to delivery against the gender diversity target set by the organisation. FSC chair and Mercer chief executive David Bryant commented: "While the importance of diversity is well recognised, there is more to be done as ...

Active Super rejigs MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... remains the same, but the MySuper product will no longer invest in the Conservative option. The fund said it worked with Mercer to analyse the age-based transition between investments based on member profiles. It expects the MySuper changes to improve ...

Benchmarks for super property investments selected

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... indexes to serve as benchmarks for super funds investing in property under the Your Future, Your Super reforms. The MSCI/Mercer Australia Core Wholesale Monthly Property Fund Index and MSCI Australia Quarterly Private Infrastructure Fund Index (Unfrozen) ...

Colonial First State adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
Colonial First State Investments Limited and Avanteos Investments Limited have added a former Mercer head of superannuation services to their trustee boards. Jo-Anne Bloch is joining the boards as a non-executive, independent director. She is currently ...