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Platform FUM plummets by $16.5bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... Commonwealth/Colonial ($47.5bn), National Australia/MLC ($46.2bn), AMP ($44.9bn), IOOF ($20.8bn), OnePath ($17.7bn) and Mercer ($14.9bn) lead the platform market. Finally master trusts were up 3.9% to $66.3bn or 16.1% of the masterfund market with AMP ...

Legg Mason Real Income Fund rated Highly Recommended

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... returned over 15%, outperforming the highest performing (stand-alone) A-REIT and equity income fund managers in the February Mercer survey (5.1% and 0.65% respectively). In March 2012 Legg Mason's income strategies (which include Real Income and Equity ...

Retail trumps wholesale in managed funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... On the retail side, above average performances, identified by the lowest percentage falls, were recorded by BT (-2.0%), Mercer (-2.1%) and AMP (-3.9%). Gross retail side inflows for 2011 totalled $165.5bn, down slightly year on year with total funds ...

Frontier appoints new analysts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Consulting has appointed three new analysts to work across sectors. Kenny Chiang will join Frontier in April 2012 from Mercer Consulting, where he worked in the fund accounting and client services teams before which he was at the Singapore Ministry of ...

CommInsure secures Tasmanian public sector fund mandate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... Mussared. "These are components of a progressive transformation of RBF and follow the transition of administration services to Mercer Australia in May 2011 and contracting of managed IT services from Logica in October 2011." RBF has more than 77,000 ...

Zurich names new board appointments

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... Limited is Eve Crestani as a non-executive director. Crestani is currently a director of Australian Unity Limited Group, Mercer Investment Nominees Limited and Booking.com. She has a 35 year career background in law and management focusing on financial ...

Contrib caps improve super social equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... concessions and age pension entitlements, which it estimates at about $370,000 regardless of income level, matching the $400,000 Mercer estimate released yesterday. The ASFA research paper dismisses the Treasury estimate that superannuation tax concessions ...

Rainmaker appoints new head of technical services

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... up Financial Standard's CPD Program. Proctor joins Rainmaker after technical services roles with Macquarie Investment, Mercer Financial Planning, ipac Securities, Perpetual and, most recently, as a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. Proctor ...

Super tax subsidies don't favour the rich: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Mercer has released a research paper that dismisses claims retirement income funding through superannuation tax concessions favours the wealthy. The paper 'Tax, Super & the Age pension" reported that the total cost of retirement funding per person in ...

Aus Ethical names new chief investment officer

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... Marci has been an analyst and portfolio manager at Australian Ethical for the past three years, holding previous roles at Mercer, Macquarie Bank, Credit Suisse and Mellon. His experience includes 'sell side' and 'buy side' equities research, portfolio ...