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New recruit at GESB

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... Taylor has 20 years experience in the superannuation industry including various senior management positions at Mercer, Watson Wyatt and Nobles Lowndes. Taylor spent the last 10 years with global consulting firm Mercer in Melbourne where many within the ...

New era for investment analysts

... international equities at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Australia; and Graeme Miller, head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt. For more information, visit www.imca.org.au or contact Yvonne Gray on [email protected]. Scholarship applications ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... more than $125 billion last year despite a high allocation to equities in the face of falling markets, according to Watson Wyatt. The 2008 Global Pensions Assets Study surveyed the largest 11 pension markets in the world and found Australian superannuation ...

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... immediate changes to superannuation funds' investment strategies are required," said Tim Unger, head of strategy at Watson Wyatt. Unger argues that now is the time for investors to evaluate their options, and realign their investment strategies to match ...

Watson Wyatt appoints ex-Intech CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
Watson Wyatt has appointed former Intech chief investment officer Hugh Dougherty to senior consultant. While at Intech, Dougherty was directly involved in capital markets research, investment manager research and portfolio management. Previoulsy, he ...

The new government: what it means

... reduce the cost of advice so that more Australians are able to access advice." Meanwhile, global consulting firm Watson Wyatt believes there will be no significant changes to superannuation. "While some initiatives will require action by fund trustees ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... unlike in retail property. The report states demand for alternative investments will continue to accelerate, citing Watson Wyatt's latest fund manager survey, which showed approximately US$200 billion flowed into alternative assets in 2005, with pension ...

Low frills, high returns

... same strategy they have used for the past ten years. The group also hired Andrew Spence, formerly a principal at Watson Wyatt, to join the team behind the new fund. But while the group used to offer investors internal rate of return (IRR) of between ...

Asset consultants change fee model: Deloitte

... attract and retain quality staff." The Deloitte report comes at a time when major asset consultants such as Frontier, Watson Wyatt and Intech have announced key staff departures in recent months. Michelle Baltazar

Corp super gets health tick

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... by the Commonwealth Bank's Officers Super Fund at $7.3 billion. QANTAS came in third at $6.6 billion. Andrew Boal, Watson Wyatt's Australian managing director, said one reason the large corporate funds would remain was that they had grown to the point ...