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Philanthropy report offers valuable insights for NFPs: Perpetual

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... Giving Australia 2005 and was commissioned by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to assist the work of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership. The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS), with the Centre for ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
With one political uncertainty removed - last week's Dutch elections where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) defeated the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection ...

Public service veteran retires from AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Strait Islander Commission, commissioner of the Australian Public Service and secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. AMP chair Catherine Brenner said Shergold "has made a significant contribution to AMP over the past decade across ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... Politburo's determination towards "economic and social stability". This is the overriding message delivered by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) earlier this month. ...

Act like a professional to be a professional: Slattery

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... goal in superannuation and we must continue to work together for the benefit of the consumers," Slattery affirmed. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also welcomed delegates to the conference, appearing via video link to reinforce the importance of superannuation ...

ANZ appoints wealth CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... security roles, having most recently delivered the new National Cyber Security Strategy to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and formerly served as chief information security officer for the Department of Defence. Connick is charged with ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave." "No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union." UK Prime Minister Theresa May's speech before EU ambassadors in London last night ended months of speculation over whether Brexit would be hard ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... the course of the year. Expectations of Fed rate rises went from four to two to one. The UK lost David Cameron as prime minister after Brexit but not the economy's mojo. The US-elected Trump as president and his reflation pronouncements sent equity and ...

Turnbull putting industry fund governance back on the table

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Speaking at a Financial Services Council breakfast in Sydney, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he would use 2017 to address inconsistencies in super fund governance. He suggested that at present, super fund governance standards are not applied equally ...