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Does financial services have a problem with women?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... Lumby says. Part of the problem is that there can be a gradual slide towards hostility, making it difficult for women to know when to speak up and for organisations to know when to nip an issue in the bud. This is something Beck feels passionately about ...

EISS Super director joins Macquarie board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
Macquarie has added an EISS Super non-executive trustee director to its boards. Mike Roche will join the Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank boards effective January 20, alongside Oz Minerals chair Rebecca McGrath. Roche has been on the EISS Super board ...

Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
David Orford's Optimum Pensions has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Generation Life to bring its retirement income product to the market. Generation Life will manufacture, administer, market and distribute an investment-linked pension ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone at risk of double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... Netherlands entered a partial lockdown. Central Europe, which had been spared in the March-April wave, saw big spikes in cases." We know what happened thereafter, virus infections (including from the new variant) got out of hand. So much so, that Eurozone ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... risk other than asset allocation, for example hedging against tail risk within asset sleeves," Rice Warner said. "Funds will know now whether they are going to fail the test in a year or two. Many will be unable to turn around their performance in this ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
The All Ordinaries index finished 2020 with a gain of 0.7%. Nothing to write home to mother about, especially compared with the 16.3% and 16.0% surge in the S&P 500 and the Nikkei-225, respectively, over the same period. However, the local bourse's ...

Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... really good starting point for us, and we like it because it focuses on financially material information," Colton said. "I know they have elements of human capital management within that, and they're continuing to look deeper in the area. "I think in ...

PNG super fund to evict settlers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Papua New Guinea's largest superannuation fund claimed victory over a small community which had settled on land owned by the fund more than two decades ago. Bushwara, a community outside of Port Moresby, was issued eviction notices by Nambawan Super ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... should support the gradual removal of restrictions and rebound in activity that was assumed in the November Report..." As we know now, restrictions have been even more tightened. Negative interest rates next?

Schroders adds to private debt team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
Schroders has announced the appointment of a new portfolio manager to its Australian private debt team. Tim Hallam will join head of private debt Australia Nicole Kidd in the newly created role from 13 January 2021. Most recently Hallam was the executive ...