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The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... International equities unhedged - represented by the MSCI World ex-Australia index - topped the table with a 31.11% return. Mercer global head of capital markets Harry Liem said equity markets delivered impressive performance last year, particularly ...

The top Australian small-cap fund, year after year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... every rival in its category, topping the Australian small-cap fund rankings across all timeframes, according to the latest Mercer investment survey. The fund has returned 39.6% over one year besting the median fund's 3.5% return and S&P/ASX Small ...

Australian equity fund manager in a league of its own: Mercer survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
An Australian equity fund manager has run circles around its rivals over the year to March, according to Mercer's most recent investment survey. The Forager Funds Management Australian Shares Fund returned 21.7% before fees, outperforming all 123 investment ...

Corporate fund selects Mercer Super for SFT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
One of the few remaining corporate super funds, the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund, will be merged into Mercer Super from next month. In September 2024, the trustee for the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund - BEST Superannuation ...

Mercer promotes wealth management lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Mercer Pacific has promoted Luke Fitzgerald, its head of wealth management, to partner. In the announcement, Mercer emphasised Fitzgerald's significant role over the past 15 years in expanding the firm's wealth management client base and supporting ...

Top ART executives depart in reshuffle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... real estate investments. Weaver was the head of private markets at Sunsuper for 15 years and earlier spent nine years at Mercer.

Which fund managers are making the most from investor fees?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... Morningstar's database of fund managers, with annual fee revenue determined by a fund's size multiplied by the Total Cost Ratio. Mercer, which runs dozens of managed funds with $73.8 billion in funds under management (FUM), topped the list for annual ...

Morningstar adds to multi-asset team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
A Mercer portfolio strategist has joined Morningstar Investment Management Australia as a portfolio manager. Morningstar has hired Joel Grosvenor as a portfolio manager with its multi-asset investment team. Grosvenor - who can count over 15 years of ...

JANA hires Mercer principal

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... The recruit brings extensive experience in investment consulting. He was a principal and senior investment consultant at Mercer for three years and held a similar role at Lonsec for six years before that. JANA head of wealth Michael Karagianis said Wilson's ...

Super fund consolidation to accelerate: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... superannuation industry is poised for accelerated consolidation, with most existing funds set to disappear, according to a Mercer report. The report noted that during the 2023/24 financial year, the number of APRA-regulated super funds declined from ...