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Allianz Pacific corporate and specialty CEO moves to regional role

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) Pacific's chief executive will move to a regional management role in June. Holger Schaefer has been chief executive of AGCS Pacific since 2010, having expanded Allianz's insurance capabilities and client ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... factory orders Weak global growth and a stronger currency are also at the heart of the bigger-than-expected 1.2% decline in German factory orders in the month of February with foreign orders dropping by 2.7% -- led by a 3.7% plunge in orders from the ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
"Do you know where you're going to... Where are you going to Do you know?" - Diana Ross, 'Theme from Mahogany" Last week was another good week for equity markets with most major benchmark indices finishing with green lights blinking brightly. Has the ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... pension plans and economies," she explains. McGowan was constantly surprised by work. "One day you would be working with a German company that had just acquired a small company and needed to work out how the pension plan worked for these new employees. ...

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The pre-budget cloud of ideas continues to thicken with Community Council for Australia chair Tim Costello advocating the federal government create an estate duty or death tax. Costello and the Council believe such a tax would generate more than $5 ...

ING DIRECT announces new CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
ING DIRECT Australia will have a new chief executive from June as Vaughn Richtor announced his retirement from the country's sixth largest retail bank today. Richtor will also retire as chief executive of ING Retail Banking Asia. He will continue to ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
It's well-known that demographic changes will shape investment opportunities and challenges in the future; what's less understood is where the main sources of population growth will arise. A new report by RBC Capital Markets considers the impact of ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
A new agreement between Australia and India that protects expatriates' pension rights is expected to save about $10 million annually for Australian businesses operating in the south Asian country. The social security agreement came in to force this ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... EU was created by the United States," he said. Following the end of World War II, "the US, under Truman, took French and German bankers and made a deal. The deal was very simple: Germany would be allowed to get reindustrialised and France was given the ...