Equity Trustees appoints research and evaluation manager

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Equity Trustees has appointed Emma Pritchard to the newly created position of research and evaluation manager, signalling the company’s commitment to growing private philanthropy in Australia. Equity Trustees distributed more... Read more continue reading

Perpetual Corporate Trust appoints new Head of Responsible Entity Services

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Perpetual Corporate Trust has announced the appointment of Hugh Treweeke as Head of Responsible Entity (RE) Services. Mr Treweeke joins Perpetual with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services... Read more continue reading

Aon Benfield scholarship now open for 2016

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Applications for the Aon Benfield scholarship are now open for 2016. This scholarship offers the opportunity to travel to London to develop advanced skills and enhance knowledge of the international... Read more continue reading

Richard Ivers joins Contango Asset Management

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Experienced equity analyst Richard Ivers has recently joined the team at Contango Asset Management, taking up a Senior Investment Analyst position, reporting to the Chief Investment Officer, George Boubouras. Mr... Read more continue reading

Super fund member engagement

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Key findings of the Investment Trends 2015 Member Engagement Report: Supporting self-directed super account services is the future for superannuation fund engagement. Retirement is coming and funds are starting to... Read more continue reading

Petrol falls again; Job ads at 3½ year highs

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Weekly petrol prices; Job advertisements Petrol: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol fell by 0.3 cents to 111.6 cents per litre... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 5 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen most share markets give up much or all of their Fed and Bank of Japan inspired... Read more continue reading

Super must be allowed to achieve its objective

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Any plans to reduce the savings of middle Australia will increase long term pressure on the Federal Budget the Financial Services Council said last week. Sally Loane, CEO of the... Read more continue reading

Standard Life Investments appoints new head of stewardship and ESG investment

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Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, has appointed Euan Stirling to the new role of Head of Stewardship and Environmental, Social, Governance Investment. The creation of this role reflects... Read more continue reading

FSC Life Conference registrations now open

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Registrations are now open for the FSC Life Insurance Conference to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel Sydney on Wednesday, 16 March, 2016. This event offers a quality program... Read more continue reading