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Impact investing delivers wide reaching returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... "Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2016" launched at the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific. The data shows a steady increase in the number of impact investments over the last five years, with the majority ...

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... released in April of this year, but lapsed due to prorogation as a result of the Federal election. Speaking at the FSC Leaders Summit in late July, O'Dwyer said the life insurance reforms were back on the agenda, saying that "too often" Australians have ...

Industry must collaborate to defeat cyber threats

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... Westpac Banking Group, Richard Johnson. Addressing a panel on the need for developing a cyber smart nation at the SINET61 Summit, Johnson said the only sensible solution to fighting cyber security was to work against the "common enemy" in a coordinated ...

Cyber security not just an IT problem: ASIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... understand company cyber resilience, according to ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour. Speaking as part of a panel at the SINET61 Summit held in Sydney, Armour said it isn't surprising that board members feel out of depth when discussing cyber security ...

Businesses face unprecedented cyber threats: CIA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... directorate of science and technology at the US Central Intelligence Agency, Dawn Meyerriecks. Speaking at the SINET61 Summit in Sydney, Meyerriecks highlighted the real challenge facing Australian businesses was the lack of infrastructure required to ...

AIST publishes Reconciliation plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... our reconciliation journey, we have progressed a number of projects including organising the inaugural Indigenous Super Summit and sponsoring the Big Super Day Out that we hope will lead to improved retirement outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Millennials getting personal with ANZ robo-adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... according to ANZ Group Innovation channel development manager Jeanette Cheah. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Cheah said that customers also asked the AI where to get "the best coffee" and how it was feeling. While this ...

Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... spells doom for the industry, according to Affinia head Marcus O'Sullivan. Commenting on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, O'Sullivan said the severe lack of diversity in financial planning was a major hindrance to the reputation - ...

Diversity isn't going to a Chinese restaurant: PwC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... Chinese restaurant now and then, according to PwC partner Ken Woo. Speaking on a diversity panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Woo acknowledged a natural bias in the recruitment process where "you find people who look, think and talk like ...

"We were wrong about super": FSC chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... Australians, according to the Financial Services Council's new chair Geoff Lloyd. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Lloyd said: "The industry was wrong to sell super as a great way to invest. It's a great way to save. Investment ...