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Climate change to impact returns: Mercer

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015

Greece's bundle of debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... "signed a deal with the IMF for another bailout package full of unpopular austerity measures". Indonesia's bailout wasn't big enough and so... it was still it's problem, not the IMF's. Indonesia's total bailout package amounted to US$43 billion - or ...

Small data beats big data

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Despite 90% of financial services professionals seeing big data as a priority for their business, very few understand how to use it, according to Mercer consumer marketing leader Cambell Holt. Speaking at the Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising ...

Super funds advised to be smart with technology

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... world where effectively consumers get what they want, when they want it, and the way they actually want it. He said it was a big shift whereby consumers, if they choose, don't have to leave their houses and can customise everything down to breakfast ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... 2,114.07, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 22.71 points (0.45 per cent) to 5,099.23. Economic reports showed a big drop in the US trade deficit in April, slower growth in the US services sector in May and a solid 201,000 new private-sector ...

ASIC looking to introduce civil laws to punish corporates

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has told a Senate Estimates hearing that the big six banks and regional counterparts have no excuse for poor corporate culture. During today's hearing Medcraft said ASIC meets ...

ISA appoints "fiscal hawk" chief economist

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed a new chief economist. Stephen Anthony joins the association from Macroeconomics, where he was director of budget and forecasting. He is also a former Treasury economist and participated in the development ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... IOOF was able to undertake so many acquisitions because there were not many players in that space: "We were able to be the big player among the smaller players, there wasn't a lot of competition. We were able to access transactions without a lot of competition ...

Top bankers get together for pro bono venture

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Adara Group, which will use the profits to help improve the lives of women and children in poverty in the developing world. Big names that joined the initiative include businessman and philanthropist David Gonski, former AMP chairman and UBS senior advisor ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Is there? Is there not? A deal between 'the institutions' and Greece? It's a mere three winks away to crunch time and yet, there's still conflicting news on whether or not 'the institutions' would give Athens the euros it needs to repay one of 'the ...