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Articles by Corrin Collocott
Mercer Super CIO's sudden departure
Top Mercer executive Corrin Collocott has quit the firm after just nine months to join Australia's biggest insurer. His sudden departure has left many scratching their heads since Insurance Australia Group has just $12 billion of assets under management. The investment head of Mercer Super and Multi-Sector - who also served as deputy CIO at Mercer Australia - will be effectively replaced by James Kerr.
Mercer Super overhauls executive team following BT merger
Mercer has welcomed two former BT Super executives to the firm's Pacific leadership team following the merger of BT Super into the Mercer Super Trust and the acquisition of Advance Asset Management. Corrin Collocott joins as chief investment officer of Mercer Super and multi-sector and will also play a deputy CIO role across Mercer in the Pacific.
MONEY TALK: New year, new super changes
The new financial year is just around the corner, which means fresh rules affecting superannuation are fast approaching. Many may have seen their super balance weaken in recent weeks due to the market turbulence, but the new financial year will at least bring some changes that will offer investors more flexibility in managing their retirement income. For the next 12 months, there is a 50 per cent reduction on the standard minimum amount that must be paid out from a superannuation income stream.
Super fusion: BT, Mercer superannuation funds set to merge
The combined super fund’s members would potentially see some of the lowest fees in the market, according to Bryant who said BT’s super members were set to benefit from an “immediate fee reduction of about 25 per cent on standard fees”, along with a greater set of global investment options. He added that bringing BT Super employees across to Mercer as part of the merger was important to ensure corporate knowledge would be transferred into the merged entity, to be branded Mercer.
Navigating the share market in a new paradigm
Banks traditionally do well in higher rate environments because it boosts their interest margins. Of course, the risk is that the benefit is negated if mortgage stress results in an uptick in home loan delinquencies. According to Martin Currie portfolio manager Ashton Reid, ‘real assets’ such as infrastructure are also well placed because they have rent or toll income linked to inflation. One example in the Martin Currie portfolio is the Australian and US toll road operator Transurban.
'Male preserve invaded': bold past steps laid path for more
In some ways it’s a little disheartening to know after so many years of activism there’s still a need to “break the bias” around gender equity, hence it’s the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. But when I look through Westpac’s private archives, I can’t help but think how steep the societal hill is that Australia is still climbing. As strange as it seems now, the bank’s archives show not one woman was employed in its first 80 years.
10Qs with…an investment leader with a daily beach ritual
Elissa Crowther-Pal, who since 2010 has led Westpac’s Global Investment Services for the bank’s private wealth customers, opens up about what makes her tick, for Westpac Wire’s “10Qs with…”. What’s your morning routine? My boys (aged 15 and 17) are swimmers which makes us a pretty early rising household. First thing is to make sure they're up (around 5.30am), fed and out the door.
‘You’re just a girl’: how Goodall broke the bias
Jane Goodall recoils from being labelled an “icon”. But she says she realised “at a certain point” that if she embraced – rather than hid from – the global fascination in her unconventional approach to studying chimpanzees in the 1960s, it could help her cause. “I cared enough about the chimpanzees to want to protect them … (so realised) I must use this notoriety,” said Dr Goodall, speaking at today’s International Women's Day event hosted by UN Women Australia, sponsored by Westpac.
Some relief for those floored by floods
While many who live on Australia’s drenched east coast may be asking ‘When will the rain stop?’, a glance at the Bureau of Meteorology shows there’s much more to come. Storms are forecast to continue to hit already flooded areas of south-east Queensland and New South Wales, while the clean-up in decimated areas such as Lismore begins as communities mourn those lost to the floods.
BILL’S BITES: Ukraine tragedy unlikely to affect policy
The shock to the world of the tragic aggressive military action in Ukraine has also rattled equity and commodity markets. But the keys to assessing the lasting economic effects are the direct impact that Ukraine and Russia have on global economic activity and Russia’s special role in energy markets. Apart from energy, Russia has limited global significance.
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