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Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Ne'er the twain shall meet but retail fund chief Brian Bissaker from Colonial First State and industry fund chief Ian Silk from Australian Super, shared centre stage to talk about how the industry can best serve financial planners, its members and the ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
All the debate about up-skilling through sharpening our educational curriculum might be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian ...

Buy side problems FIX'd

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008

Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The arrival of Gail Kelly at the helm of Westpac may accelerate the bank's adoption of "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks, allowing staff to share information freely and collaborate online. The bank already has around 1000 user ...

Boot camp for ING sales staff

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
ING Australia has launched a new training program to identify, train, and develop aspiring sales staff in an effort to grow the company's product awareness among consumers. The Business Development Associate (BDA) program will be implemented across ...

Great Southern branches outside agribusiness

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Agribusiness manager Great Southern has called on the investment muscle of Perennial, SG Hiscock and Adam Smith Asset Management as it steps out of its traditional domain. Great Southern has launched an All Caps Australian Share Fund and a Domestic ...

IAS gathers momentum

Managed accounts administrator Investment Administration Services (IAS) announced it had over $1.5 billion in funds under administration (FUA) only two years since launch. "This is a milestone for IAS and achieved from a start up position just over ...

Mirvac appoints exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
Mirvac Funds Management (MFM) has appointed Chris Packett to director of real estate equity funds. Packett will manage the recently acquired Domaine Property with $750 million in committed assets under management across five unlisted property trusts ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Mercer appoints new financial advice leader

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Mercer Wealth Solutions has announced the appointment of former Citigroup executive Scott Walters as Australian financial advice leader. Walters will be responsible for developing Mercer's well-established employed face-to-face and phone-based financial ...