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EQT appoints estate planning specialist

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... career as a solicitor, starting at Minter Ellison in 1981," Hacker said. "For the past 13 years he has specialised in the wills and estates area with exposure to a full range of issues, including more than five years' experience as an estate planning ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... attached as a beta to China," State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills says. "But ours is a horrendously bad index," he adds, in reference to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) lack of diversification ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... ironically it can be good," State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills said. Wills said that the problem is "when you get to 67 you don't tend to be disengaged." Quoting a study by the Association ...

PwC acquires Smorgon family office business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... innovative values-based approach to managing the 'family' side of family businesses," PwC's private clients leader David Wills said. Smorgon was a senior executive and director of Smorgon Consolidated Family Industries, one of Australia's largest and ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... exposure, they need to hold equities if they're going to have any chance of meeting their long-term return expectations," Mark Wills, head of SSGA's investment solutions group for Asia Pacific, said. "But their confidence in being able to weather a sharp ...

Defensive pension pots just won't last

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... property), would be able to fund their retirement, on average, for an additional eight years, before their savings run out. Mark Wills, the Asia Pacific head of SSGA's Investment Solutions Group, said many retirees are not comfortable with holding larger ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... divorce in Australia is 3.6 years. "A lot can happen in that time," he said. "Many people mistakenly believe that legal wills cannot, or do not, need to be altered until the divorce process has been finalised, however people should address their changed ...

Dying in social media: adviser's next big nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... estate planning, as they will be forced to deal with the person's digital footprint after their death. Equity Trustees (EQT) wills and estates specialist Anna Hacker believes the issue is an emerging problem that is becoming increasingly complicated ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014