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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0700 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 29 points at 5,835. US stocks gained some ground following the first rise in US factory ...

Telstra Super lawyer wins WiS scholarship

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
Telstra Super senior legal counsel Sharyn Cowley has been awarded one of four inaugural Mavis Robertson Scholarship Programs, offered by advocacy group Women in Super. The awards were announced to coincide with International Women's Day on Sunday 8 ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Mavis Robertson, one of the pioneers of the Australian superannuation sector, has died. Robertson's career spanned more than six decades in the union movement and then in superannuation as fund secretary of BUS (Building Unions Superannuation) and AUST ...

Marquee hire for PWC's investment advisory team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
PwC has announced a marquee appointment to the investment advisory team within its consulting division. They have appointed David St. John, super fund investment counsel to legal super and a former chief investment officer to UniSuper. He will join ...

Anne-Marie Corboy: A career in retrospect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
In September, HESTA chief executive Anne-Marie Corboy announced that she would be standing down after 16 years at the helm of one of Australia's largest super funds. James Fernyhough caught up with her to hear her thoughts on HESTA's evolution, the ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The share market has opened weaker as another disappointing German business confidence reading reignited European growth concerns. The Ifo index of German business confidence fell for the sixth month in a row to a near two-year low in October, which ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Lack of hedge fund scale forced CalPERS to abandon the sector, not the inability of hedge funds to perform Last month the US$300 billion California public sector pension fund rattled global hedge fund managers when they announced they were cashing out ...

Call for entries to the 2014 Smileys Social Media Scholarship program

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014

Financial Standard launches magazine for managed accounts professionals

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
With adviser demand for managed accounts predicted to rise in the next three years, Financial Standard has launched a new magazine: FS Managed Accounts - The Journal for Managed Account Professionals. The magazine was unveiled at Financial Standard's ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Some of Australia's best known investment talent has been named in BRW's latest rebalancing of its annual rich list. In tenth place, Platinum Asset Management co-founder Kerr Neilson was the highest placed financial services executive with an estimated ...