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Ray King added to Ashington super fund court case

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... damages have risen to $14 million and a new defendant has been added to a court case against four prominent super fund - Mercer partner Ray King. The case relates to the collapse of Ashington property group in 2011. Ashington founder Craig Anderson ...

MySuper authorisations reaches 117

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... largest player in the MySuper market with nine authorisations. Westpac and BT Financial Group have four as do Towers Watson. Mercer and Equity Trustees have three. AustralianSuper is the largest not-for-profit player, also with three. Despite the new ...

Mercer wins Mercy Super admin gig

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
Mercer has entered a seven-year deal with corporate super fund Mercy Super to provide member administration services. Mercy Super - which is the super fund primarily for employees of Brisbane's Mater Hospital and other Mercy Partners employees - has ...

NGS Super launches direct investment platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
NGS Super has partnered with Mercer to offer members access to a new direct investment platform. The new platform, launched today, allows members to trade ASX300 shares, a choice of exchange traded funds and term deposits from their super or pension ...

Lifecycle the future of pensions globally: Mercer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... despite the latter so far favouring the static strategic asset allocation (SAA) for their MySuper options, according to Mercer senior partner Graeme Mather. Researched released yesterday by Mercer showed that while more than half of all retail funds ...

Retail funds favour lifecycle MySuper options

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... approach, while all but four industry funds have opted for static strategic asset allocation (SAA), according to research by Mercer. The release of the research, entitled 'MySuper Market Trends', comes at the end of the MySuper regime's first month. ...

BNP Paribas appoints local head of sales

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... client facing roles within the custody and asset servicing industry with RBC Dexia Securities Services, State Street and Mercer Australia. "We have completed a significant building and investment phase over the past four years, and we are in a strong ...

Retail funds top super rankings survey

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... of members as a central criterion for the fund's overall ranking. Retail funds heavily dominate the top ten, with CBA, Mercer, NAB and Westpac taking the top four rankings respectively. In fifth and sixth place were Unisuper and Catholic Super, followed ...

Super returns climb to 16.1pct, ahead of pre-GFC glory days

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... Super with 19.5%. The top five personal super funds (by balanced options) over the 12 months were HOSTPLUS with 21.0%, Mercer with 20.9%, IOOF Portfolio Service with 19.8%, Perpetual Wealth Focus with 19.6% and legalsuper with 19.3%. The top five public ...

Towers Watson adds five to investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
... its Australian investment team in response to an expanding client base. Two of the five are investment consultants: Craig Mercer and Sean O'Shea. Mercer will take on the role of senior hedge funds and alternatives consultant at the firm. His most recent ...