Women’s Index shows progress back on track despite alarming time frame to gender equality in education

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Key Results 73.3 points – The FWX rose 0.4 points in the Sept qtr, signalling gender equality progress helped by narrowing of the gender gaps in education, underemployment and board... Read more continue reading

Praemium appoints Denis Orrock to Chief Strategy Officer

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Praemium has announced the appointment of Denis Orrock to the newly created position of Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). Denis will join the Executive Leadership Team reporting to CEO Anthony Wamsteker.... Read more continue reading

Columbia Threadneedle Investments appoints Chris King as Head of Wholesale, Australia

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Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a leading global asset manager, has appointed Chris King as Head of Wholesale, Australia. Chris joined Columbia Threadneedle in November 2022 and is based in Sydney reporting... Read more continue reading

UniSuper appoints Peter Warne to chair Investment Committee

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UniSuper has announced that former Macquarie Bank Chair, Peter Warne, will join its Board as an independent non-executive Director from 1 January 2023. He will also step into the role... Read more continue reading

Schroders Australia appoints Colin Keenan as institutional sales manager

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Schroders Australia has appointed Colin Keenan as Institutional Sales Manager. Mr Keenan will be based in Melbourne and report to Schroders Australia Head of Sales, Ray Macken. He joins Schroders... Read more continue reading

Chubb Promotes Ben Howell to Lead Consumer Business in Asia Pacific  

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Chubb has announced the promotion of Ben Howell to Regional Head of Consumer, APAC for its general insurance business in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, he serves as Regional Head... Read more continue reading

iExtend appoints Senior Risk Manager

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iExtend has appointed Lindsay Stark as Senior Risk Manager to provide support and expert guidance on the growing number of individual qualifying policies to be co-owned by iExtend. Lindsay brings... Read more continue reading

Risking the Great Wealth Transfer – How young Aussies spend, save and invest puts future inheritance in jeopardy

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Young Australians (Generation Z (Gen Z) and Millennials) are putting billions of dollars of inheritance at risk with their current money management behaviours, reveals new research from Findex Group Limited (“Findex”). The research commissioned by Findex, Australasia’s largest... Read more continue reading

‘Cost of living crisis’ the top perceived risk to Australia and New Zealand businesses

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Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has revealed that the ‘cost of living crisis’ is the top perceived risk to Australia and New Zealand businesses, following a survey of more than... Read more continue reading

GSFM appoints Michael Angwin to Sydney-based distribution team

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Fund manager GSFM has appointed Michael Angwin to the newly created role of consultant and wholesale distribution, effective 31 October. He will report to head of retail distribution Stephen Fletcher.... Read more continue reading