MERCER

People & Products

Ben Walsh, current chief executive for Mercer in Australia and New Zealand, will start in the new role on 1 June, 2020. ...

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Superannuation

Mercer has called for a universal Age Pension as it would create a simpler, more efficient super system with reduced administration costs....

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Funds management

Only two funds in the least risky sector that had the least volatility managed to beat the sector return average, according to data....

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Funds management

Flinders Investment Partners’ small cap fund has been rewarded allocations from consulting groups Mercer Investment Consulting and Evidentia Group....

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Financial planning

Organisations should not be surprised if employees exhibit bad culture if the firm is focused on metrics and give rewards based on meeting targets, according to a panel....

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Features

As central banks worldwide fight with low or even negative rates, advisers should look towards higher-quality investment grade bonds and emerging market debt to seek out ...

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Financial planning

While the country ranks well in terms of resilience in ageing and automation as a whole, it is older workers that could be in danger of their ability to finance their lon...

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Funds management

An active and a passive fund have achieved the same returns over five years, making them the joint best-performing funds in the ACS Fixed Interest – Australia Bond sector...

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People & Products

The new index-based fund from Kogan and Mercer will provide members five investment options based on their risk tolerance....

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Rate the raters

While smaller and new entrants to the ratings market are shaking up the status quo, Oksana Patron finds that historic issues such as inexperienced staff and poor sector c...

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People & Products

Mercer has appointed senior executive Paul Giles to the role of senior client manager, responsible for large industry and public sector clients....

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Financial planning

Superannuation fund members are being encouraged to use the 1 July, 2019 Protecting Your Super deadline as an opportunity to check the performance of their fund....

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Financial planning

SMSF members who deliberately hold an APRA-regulated fund for life insurance are at risk of losing this benefit if they fail to act before legislation comes into play in ...

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Life/Risk

Australians are at risk of losing their life insurance cover when superannuation changes come into effect in July, as AIA Australia, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporati...

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Superannuation

The Grattan Institute has stood by its position that the superannuation guarantee (SG) should remain at 9.5 per cent, saying that predictions of insufficient retirement i...

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