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PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting, law and engineering) can "share in the profits of the insurance that they buy" through financial advisers, according to PPS Mutual chief executive ...

Colonial First State partners with UTS

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... potential for delivering more and deeper insights to financial planners in the future. Dean of the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, Professor Ian Burnett, said: "The UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT has always had a strong focus on collaborative research ...

Hastings names new UTA portfolio managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... to run UTA - a fund with more than $5 billion in funds under management. "Brett's M&A experience coupled with his engineering background make him ideally suited to be the lead UTA Portfolio Manager," Day said. "The combination of Brett's and Matthew's ...

Embrace change to stay relevant

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... 'peace of mind' or 'outsourcing complexity' business. What is your purpose?" he asked. The next three steps were re-engineering (changing established processes and questioning why things are done the way they are in the business), re-framing (examining ...

BlackRock hires senior analyst from UBS

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... is joining BlackRock as a director. He has 12 years' experience as an analyst and was previously head of gaming and engineering & contractors research at UBS. He also has experience in emerging companies and media. BlackRock said Theodore's appointment ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... Birmingham; the development of Liverpool Water - the city's historic docklands site; a Centre for Advanced Knowledge and Engineering in Norfolk; a waterfront luxury housing, retail and winter sports facility in Cardiff; an all-weather tourist resort ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... tantamount to accepting that they fibbed or more kindly, they failed... that QE1, QE2, QE3 have not truly succeeded in engineering a "self-sustaining" recovery in the real economy. Sure, it blew bubbles in stocks, in bonds and property but to a "self-sustaining" ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... pension savings to bankable projects. "This move will be a huge fillip for Australian expertise in funds management, engineering, construction, architecture and legal services which could be widely applied to projects financed by the AIIB," Collins said. ...

Market lower in broad sell-off

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... $13.35 after it said it is spending $75 million to improve its operating systems. Recruitment, property management and engineering services provider Programmed Maintenance Services was up 10 cents to $2.65 despite its full year profit dropping almost ...

Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... (UHNW) individuals are particularly at risk from fraudsters. Private banks have reported carefully planned social engineering and manipulation scams being directed at their staff and customers. "The values of transactions in this group are typically ...