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Final days to nominate in 2021 MAX Awards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... industry who have achieved excellence in marketing, advertising and sales. The awards feature 22 categories, including Agency Campaign of the Year, Agency Executive of the Year, Community Initiative of the Year, Distribution Team of the Year, Financial ...

Mercer adds investment, superannuation experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... Minto is currently the chair of Swiss Re and Partners Life, and sits on the boards of the National Disability Insurance Agency and Dai-ichi Life Asia Pacific. Just yesterday it was announced Minto had departed Equity Trustees where he held the role of ...

Boutique hires fund services lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... assistant manager and legal counsel before it was taken over by Perpetual. AMAL provides loan servicing, corporate trust and agency services. It has some $16 billion in funds under administration for Australian and New Zealand clients that range from ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... to 1/4 percent... will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80 billion per month and of agency mortgage-backed securities by at least $40 billion per month," the Fed said. This really is no surprise, especially if one's ...

Childcare costs drag women's nest egg

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... survey respondents advocate for super to be paid on maternity leave. The latest data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) reveals that Australia's gender-pay gap declined to 13.4%, a drop of 0.6 percentage points over the last six months. ...

Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
According to recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, women hold 14.6% of chair positions, 28.1% of directorships and represent 18.3% of chief executives and 32.5% of key management personnel. Perhaps most concerning of all, only 0.4% ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... end of April. Clearly, the global economy is past its worst, which is good news for oil. But as the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned in its February 'Oil Market Report', "the rebalancing of the oil market remains fragile in the early ...

State Street loses Fearless Girl replica claim

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... commercial purposes." The matter relates to a 2016 statue of a young girl standing akimbo. It was commissioned by advertising agency McCann from artist Kristen Visbal as a part of State Street's campaign to promote its SHE fund (the SPDR SSGA Gender ...

Shock statistics on gender gap on boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed that while the pay gap has decreased from 0.6%, women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership. WGEA reported that the national gender pay gap has dropped to 13.4% ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... supported by real estate fund manager Altis Property Partners and community affordable housing provider Evolve and real estate agency Echo. The super fund's other affordable-housing investments include: Epping, Waterloo, Hurstville, Northmead, Miranda ...