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Soaring funeral costs require adviser airtime

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... place for a funeral service. Hacker's experience backs a recent survey from Finder, which shows Sydney as the most expensive city for a funeral service at $8357, followed by Perth ($7584), Brisbane ($7505) and Canberra ($7303). The national average is ...

NAB names wealth advocate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... for the Australian Council for International Development; deputy chair of the Asylum Seekers Centre, and a board member of City West Housing and Energy Consumers Australia. NAB chief customer officer of consumer banking and wealth Andrew Hagger said ...

Super fund names new board director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... services committee and risk committee. Last month LGS announced the addition of current councillor and former mayor of Penrith City Council Karen McKeown to its board. McKeown has also been endorsed as the Labor party's candidate for Penrith at the ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... in Australia's housing market. This is backed up by the CoreLogic RP Data home value index showing that the "5 capital city aggregate" of all dwellings fell by 0.3% in the month of April. CoreLogic's more updated report showed the "5 capital ...

Industry fund welcomes local politician to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... superannuation fund is welcoming the former mayor of Penrith to its board. Current councillor and former mayor of Penrith City Council Karen McKeown is the latest director to join the board of Local Government Super. Bringing more than 20 years' ...

Pension fund CIO departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... immediately. Eliopoulos said family reasons prompted the decision, explaining he and his wife have opted to relocate to New York City to be closer to his two daughters in college. "It's been extremely rewarding to have helped steward an investment ...

Venerable US manager eyes Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Century's presence in Australia," Archer said. American Century currently employs 1300 people and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

US project to end pension politics

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... actuarial assumptions are used. States alone have $6 trillion in unfunded liabilities - not counting the thousands of county and city pensions. It is advocating four core principles in public pension management: adherence to fiduciary responsibility ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... trend in the CoreLogic Home Value Index is any indication, we can expect further cooling housing prices. CoreLogic's "five city aggregate home value index" for "all dwellings" increased by just 1.4% in the year to end-February. The year-on-year growth ...

Wealth technology firm acquired for $6.8bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... services and better enable our clients to address increasing competitive and regulatory pressures." Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with more than 14,400 employees worldwide, DST generated pro forma revenue of $2.3 billion for the 12 months ending ...