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AustralianSuper acquires Qantas site

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
As part of a consortium, AustralianSuper will acquire a 14-hectare redevelopment site from Qantas Airways worth $802 million. AustralianSuper joined forces with logistics company LOGOS to take over the land, which is based in Mascot and located near ...

Students opt for healthcare over finance: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
A survey by the CFA Institute shows that more university students and new graduates want to work in healthcare and science than in finance. Out of the 1000 respondents who took part in the global survey, more Australians see themselves working in healthcare ...

RIAA, HESTA back key First Nations project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
Businesses and investors including HESTA and Lendlease have launched an initiative that will focus on strengthening Australia's First People's heritage laws. The First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance, the Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) ...

Super funds extend poor disclosure to ESG holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
Superannuation funds are extending their opaque disclosure practices to their environment, social and governance commitments. The recent Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on ESG heard that only a small subset of super funds are walking the talk ...

PFAN appoints chair, deputy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
... the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). She was senior marketing manager at NEOS Life and head of retail marketing at TAL Life. The board members include Paul Harding-Davis, Brad Fox, Kate Humphries and Niall McConville and Stephen Knight. "I welcome ...

New leadership at Zurich Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
... Francis Burgess will join Zurich Life & Investments in the newly created role of head of pricing, group insurance. He joins from TAL, where he was head of pricing and has also held a head of pricing position at Pacific Life Re. Also recently joining ...

State Street bolsters SPDR team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
State Street Global Advisors has made four senior appointments within its SPDR exchange-traded funds business in Asia Pacific. Kathleen Gallagher has been appointed as head of SPDR ETFs Australia, in addition to her current role as head of ETF Model ...

Consumers lose out on IP changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... losses over the past five years, meaning certain benefits will be removed or reduced on new policies. Life insurers such as TAL and ClearView have recently launched new income protection products in response to the reforms. Meanwhile, NobleOak's benefit ...

Hyperion Asset Management builds out team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
The fund manager has appointed a head of risk and compliance, general executive, and research associate as it invests in its next stage of growth. Thomas Withers has joined as head of risk and compliance from Northcape Capital where he was in a similar ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
Financial markets have been on edge ever since they got the first whiff of "taper" in the air. This started when the minutes of the US Federal Reserve's April 27-28 FOMC meeting revealed that: "A number of participants suggested that if the economy ...