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Wilson HTM to split funds management, stockbroking arms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... from the funds management business comes after the company discontinued discussions with rival Shaw Stockbroking over a mercer last September. In August, Wilson HTM had told the ASX that it had plans to either sell or merge its stockbroking arm with ...

BNP Paribas names acting head of custody

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... was unexpected, and came just 10 months after he took up the top job. He left the company to take up a role as head of Mercer Sentinel's Pacific business.

Mercer to launch longevity insurance solution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Mercer will next week launch a new product which it says will "address longevity risk in a way that has never been offered in Australia before." While Mercer gave little away about the product, Financial Standard understands that it will be something ...

BNP Paribas' Peter Baker moves to Mercer Sentinel

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Former BNP Paribas Securities Services managing director Peter Baker has been appointed the new head of Mercer Sentinel's Pacific team. The announcement comes just days after Baker informed BNP Paribas that he would be leaving his post as managing director ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Australia's pension system is the second best in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark ...

Two-fifths forced into retirement before financially ready

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The best laid retirement plans are often outdone by illness or redundancy with new research from Mercer showing that 40% of Australians are forced into retirement before they are financially ready. According to the report, retirees will outlast their ...

Former GESB head of investments joins JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... portfolio. Before working at GESB, he was manager of investments as NGS Super. Prior to that he was a research consultant at Mercer. Dwyer joined JANA in September.

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... awarded the fund a "blue" complexity indicator, which means the fund "represents a relatively simple financial investment". Mercer Investment Consulting also rated the fund, but details of that rating are only available to Mercer's clients. Yellow Brick ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... semi-finalists roundtable, eight advisers reflected on the challenges that the industry is facing at the moment. Semi-finalist and Mercer Financial Advice adviser Nadia Cassidy compared advice to the formal segmentation that's already established within ...