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PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Lochiel Crafter was appointed head of the State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) business in Australia and Asia Pacific a year ago. Since then, a number of mandates, appointments and new strategies have kept the company and its CEO busy. By Laura Millan. ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors across the globe, representing US$5.7 ...

Race among the advice giants: MAX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Australia's insights on social media and financial services; key trends in self-directed investing and 'money on the move', a study of the latest investment mandates in Australia. Seats are still available for the forum in Sydney on https://www.financialstandard.com.au/max. ...

AFA launches 2014 mentoring program

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... gave him a different approach to advising which he believes was crucial to his development. "I had truly had enough of the study load from university, but my contact with my mentor provided me with skills that the degree ignores, particularly in the ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... clients' interests first through the highest standards of professional ethics, and education." The CFA Program is a self-study program, considered to be the most rigorous credentialing program in the investment industry. The CFA curriculum is grounded ...

FEAL to recognise top superannuation CIOs and COOs

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... in the successful running of superannuation funds. The awards will be held on 11 November and each awardee will receive a study grant worth $10,000. Applications will open at the end of this month and available on the FEAL website or www.CIOCOOAwards ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
In April the Actuaries Institute launched an advertising campaign painting actuaries as the 'rock stars of the 21st Century'. FourA months into the role, new chief executiveA David Bell tells James Fernyhough what heA hopes the campaign will achieve. ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Superannuation industry bodies have responded to the Grattan Institute's report on super fees, arguing that fundamental change is not necessary. Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), said that the ...