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CalPERS appoints interim CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... cabinet secretary to former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and assistant director for legislation at the California Department of General Services.

ASIC ban upheld, investment banker jailed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... 2011. The information was allegedly conveyed to Hull by a close friend who was employed in the investment banking department of a global financial services company which worked with major corporate transactions involving those companies. ASIC commission ...

US Senate votes down adviser fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
The US Senate recently voted down the Department of Labor's administration rule for financial advisers that would have compelled them to act in their clients' best interests. The law was passed 65-41 meaning it fell well short of the two thirds majority ...

Public sector retirees still seek answers

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... affected by the 10% cap, both singles and couples, have been proffered, both by government Ministers and by the Department of Social Services," the letter to Porter said. "The financial circumstances of many retirees that have been reported to ACPSRO ...

Oxford-Man Institute expands into machine learning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... Institute (OMI) will expand its focus on machine learning and data analytics, becoming part of the University's department of engineering and science from 1 August 2016. The expansion will create a hub for machine learning and data analysis and aims ...

Hostplus appoints investment strategy head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... including head of quantitative analytics, information technology and custody. Prior to JANA, Clerk was an analyst at the Department of Treasury and Finance in Victoria. "Greg Clerk brings a wealth of experience to Hostplus as he has been working with ...

SEC to run ad campaign promoting online consumer adviser checks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... free check of any authorised adviser or broker. The campaign follows the SEC stepping up its involvement in the US Department of Labor's reform proposals to introduce a universal definition of fiduciary duty that will bind all retirement intermediaries ...

US resistance to DOL fiduciary rule gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
Momentum is building against the US Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed fiduciary rule for retirement advisers with House Speaker Paul Ryan now joining the critics. The DOL has been working on expanding the fiduciary obligation since the GFC when millions ...

Statewide COO departs, successor appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... Schneider Electric. She has also held roles at HP, EDS and Fujitsu Consulting. Rantanen, meanwhile, has moved on to the Department of Treasury and Finance, where she has become COO. Rantanen spent six years at Statewide, during which she took on the ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... as the US dollar plunged - Bloomberg US dollar index down 1.6% -- and oil prices soared by around 7% (despite the Department of Energy's report that crude oil inventories in the week ended 29 January were at the highest levels on record. Sure there's ...