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Mercer appoints chief customer officer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... first, the group acquired Pillar Administration from the NSW Government for $35 million; and most recently it partnered Virgin Super with a view to creating a direct-to-consumer superannuation fund in the New Year.

Virgin Super sees Mercer takeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
Mercer will open a direct-to-consumer superannuation fund in the New Year as part of its takeover of Virgin Super. Providing Virgin Super with administration services since 2015, Mercer is extending its partnership to further craft and develop the $540 ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
"This is the moment; this is the day When I send all my doubts and demons on their way. Every endeavor I have made ever Is coming into play, is here and now today." -Donny Osmond, 'This is the moment" Well, Wednesday (14 December 2016), to be precise ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Be careful what you wish for... No Virginia, except for Putin, the majority of world leaders didn't wish for Trump. So far away from Good Friday, they would have crucified US presidential "candidate" Donald Trump (if that was legal). In mid-January ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
Just when we thought Halloween was over, things are still going bump day and night. Things like the VIX - "fear" - index. It bumped up to a reading of 22.1 overnight, just six points shorts of this year's high of 28.1 reached on the 11th of February. ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

AMP Capital boosts Infrastructure Equity team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... management for the benefit of our investors." Pacey has also previously held senior finance and operational roles with Virgin Rail and Metronet Rail, and management roles in the procurement, IT, commercial and risk disciplines. Pacey commenced with AMP ...

Centuria taps Google for latest board appointment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... and the UK across a range of industries including global law firms DLA Piper and King & Wood Mallesons, worked with the Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic airline brands and has held the role of vice president of Groupon. Wheeldon-Steels holds an MBA ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
It's live! It'll be one of those Septembers to remember. This, Virginia, is if you believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many ...

Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Trust in financial advisers can be easily manipulated, according to a new university study which found a large proportion of Australians were unable to tell the difference between good and bad financial advice. The study also revealed a high proportion ...