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Financial planning

Fund managers have delivered a strong rebuke to research groups who diversify into investment management, with over 80 per cent claiming the move creates serious conflict...

Financial planning

The recent decision by UBS to prevent van Eyk from reviewing its funds has focused attention on whether a conflict of interest exists where a research house offers servic...

Funds management

The US$4 trillion Mellon Financial Corporation is sizing up a plan to set up an Australian equities funds management arm....

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resources Consulting is urging the Federal Government to raise the pension age from 65 to 67 and to reduce the taxation rate paid by superannuation funds as ...

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resources Consulting has secured Australia’s biggest actuarial name, with David Knox joining its Melbourne-based superannuation consulting division this week...

People & Products

Super fund Sunsuper has appointed Mercer Investment Consulting to advise on its range of investment products....

Financial planning

Australian investment managers are predicting a jump in demand for alternative investments in 2005 as investors go in search of opportunities in a slowing equities market...

Financial planning

Fledging financial services software company Bravura Solutions added Syscorp to its takeover menu today as well as finalising the acquisition of another major software pr...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse Asset Management has added several multi-manager options to its fledgling platform, MasterWrap, after striking a deal with Mercer Investment Consulting....

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting continues with its push into the retail and institutional research markets, adding two more staff to its growing stable of consultants and li...

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting has lost another key team member with funds management group Queensland Investment Corporation announcing today it has recruited senior analy...

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting, bucking the trend against its recent hiring spree, has been forced to restructure its senior ranks following the departure of its national p...

Financial planning

Van Eyk has moved to deflect attention from a spate of recent departures to competing research group, Mercer Investment Consulting, by announcing a new head of distributi...

Financial planning

While Mercer has been entrenched in the asset consulting scene for many years, it is a relatively new player in the retail research space. Freya Purnell looks at the rise...

Financial planning

Telstra owned Australian Administration Services is set to throw its hat into the financial planning arena in what would be a first for a back-office administration firm....

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