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...Russ Fradin, former chief executive and chair of Aon Hewitt and a partner at the buyouts group, will be its chair....
...Mercer, Aon Hewitt and Willis Towers Watson oversee more than $20tn of pension fund assets — almost half the global total....
...DC pensions’ adoption of illiquid private equity strategies also troubles Richard Ennis, the retired co-founder of the investment consultant EnnisKnupp, which is now owned by Aon Hewitt....
...The best-known fiduciary managers include Willis Towers Watson, Mercer, Aon Hewitt and BlackRock....
...Hewitt, which dominate the market....
...It is a member of the influential investment consulting industry whose other members include Willis Towers Watson, Aon Hewitt and Mercer. Mr Druley’s route to Cambridge Associates was idiosyncratic....
...Eight investment consultants, including the “big three” of Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson, are taking part in the talks, dubbed Project Spotlight....
...In a letter sent to the committee in March describing what action it has taken on climate change risk, the SCPF disclosed it had discussed the potential effect of climate change with Aon Hewitt, its actuarial...
...Aon Hewitt declined to comment....
...Willis Towers Watson, Mercer, Aon Hewitt, BlackRock and 10 other influential advisers to pension funds have started to disclose investment performance data in the same way for the first time, as the sector...
...That triggered “benefit in kind” tax charges, which advisers Aon Hewitt and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer warned could leave the company open to legal action on the basis that the directors “were not informed...
...The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has been sharply criticised by Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, the three leading investment consultants, over the financial watchdog’s analysis of the powerful...
...Eight out of the world’s top 10 investment consultants or asset managers offering investment advice, including Aon Hewitt and Russell Investments, have not backed a series of recent major climate change...
...The CMA looked at funds rated by Willis Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, two members of the so-called big three, which controls up to 80 per cent of the market....
...The group, one of the so-called big-three consultants alongside Willis Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, said a recent report by the Competition and Markets Authority was flawed in its methodology due to the...
...It added that it had already held site visits to Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson — the so-called big three of investment consultants — as well as receiving evidence from pension funds, asset...
...The Financial Conduct Authority has been sharply criticised by Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, the investment consultants, over the financial watchdog’s analysis of the powerful sector, which...
...The watchdog said the so-called big three – Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson – account for up to 80 per cent of market....
...The so-called big-three investment consultants of Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, as well as JLT and P-Solve, which are smaller advisers, control 598 of the 805 fiduciary mandates in the UK,...
...Many investment consultancy businesses emerged from accountancy, actuarial or HR firms, including London-based Aon Hewitt and New York-based Mercer....
...Andy Cox, chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Aon Hewitt, added: “We look forward to opening the dialogue on these measures to other industry participants....
...Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson dominate the business of advising pension scheme trustees on investment. They have used this dominance as an entrée into investment management itself....
...In a warning shot to Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson, global investment consultants that collectively control up to 80 per cent of the British market, the FCA said it feared competition in the...
...“The provision of free or subsidised advice has a significant impact on volume of transfers,” says Ben Roe, partner with Aon Hewitt....
...For almost two years, Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt have waged a private, and later public, battle to avoid a competition probe and to convince British regulators that all was well in the investment...
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