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Australian Philanthropic appoints new CEO

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... Perpetual," said APS chairman Chris Cuffe. Prior to Perpetual, Ruffell held senior roles with the Royal Agricultural Society Foundation, Mission Australia, The Prince's Trust in the UK and ING Australia. In her most recent role, Ruffell was responsible ...

Cambooya appoints new CEO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... role of CEO of Cambooya Services in August. She has additionally taken the role of CEO for the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, vacated when Dr. Sue-Anne Wallace retired earlier this year. Wheatley has a broad-ranging professional background providing ...

Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has launched a new placement program for the younger generations of family foundations and PAFs designed to ignite philanthropic interest. The Immerse program involves taking six to eight people between the ...

Australian foundations sample impact investing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... look to impact investments, including allocating from the corpus to market rate investments where they align with the foundation's mission and programmatic goals. Chief executive of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Luther M Ragin Jr. said ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... Australia. Much has been said in recent times over the need to change attitudes to giving in Australia with the 2008 Petre Foundation report finding giving by the affluent in Australia does not match what would be expected in the global context. Dismissing ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... time but it goes along the lines of what RBA Governor Glen Stevens said at his "The lucky Country" speech at The Anika Foundation last 24 July. You can read it again here: http://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2012/sp-gov-240712.html The only thing I can add ...

MLC appoints super funds board member

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... is a member of the Federal Government's Stronger Super Governance Working Group, deputy president of the Accounting Foundation - University of Sydney, member and immediate past chairman of the Superannuation Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ...

Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... that advisers can use - and it doesn't just have to be private ancillary funds, they can also assist in setting up a foundation through a public ancillary fund for a relatively modest cost." While Robertson says that it is not strictly fair to directly ...

Greens plan to fell Westpac-backed logging

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... a review and possible withdrawal of environmental awards previously given to Westpac via the Banksia Environmental Foundation, which administers the Prime Minister's environmental award with government funding. The Greens also used the motion to call ...

ASIC unveils primary school teaching package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... primary and secondary packages integrate consumer and financial literacy education into the Australian Curriculum from Foundation to Year 10 and will be trialed in approximately 90 schools nationally. Face-to-face professional learning will be provided ...