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Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... and financial advice provider to its members. Mercer announced yesterday its appointment to oversee the non-Government schools industry fund's member services, financial advice and administration processes. Mercer's services to NGS Super members will ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... reduced faculty searches. Top administrators, including Etchemendy, President John Hennessy, and the deans of all seven schools, have taken pay cuts of 5 to 10 percent.

CSRF supports Catholic Schools Week

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund is partnering with Catholic Schools Week in 2009 to help boost super and financial literacy. This year marks the third time CRSF will be supporting the dioceses of New South Wales and ACT in their promotion ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten ...

NGSS on mandate spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The $2.65 billion Non-Government Schools Superannuation Fund has splurged on eight new mandates in a bid to overhaul its international equity portfolio. The super fund's $600 million international equity portfolio now counts Baillie Gifford, Deutsche ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... interstate highway system a half-century ago. That could bolster the economy by putting thousands of people to work building schools and other construction projects. Investors also appeared more comfortable that the government is closer to legislation ...

High school fin literacy for Aussies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... superannuation. The new program is called Your Money Starter - Insurance and Super: a financial literacy resource for secondary schools, which includes interactive online games. It is already being distributed to every secondary school in Australia. ...

HESTA appoints three

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... responsible for all corporate super. Prior to that, she was the senior business development manager for Non-Government Schools Super for three years. The new executive manager - member education is Neil Saxton, who has worked for the past two years as ...

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... savings of more than 300,000 kWh/month. The software group also donated more than $16 million in cash and software to schools, charities and local communities. Employee volunteerism also rose by more than 230 percent from the previous year thanks to ...

Rate Cut in the Offing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... was unable to hold on to its gains, dropping to its lowest level since early May of US$112.76 a barrel. There are two schools of thought regarding oil's pullback. One is that financial markets are expecting a quick resolution to the Georgian conflict ...