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Former CFP GM joins industry super fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... Financial Planning (CFP) general manager Harry Mitchell has signed on as an industry superannuation fund chief executive, joining Mine Wealth + Wellbeing from May. Mitchell led CFP for three-and-a-half years and entered the position after ASIC placed ...

Norwegian pension fund drops 52 coal companies

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
Norges Bank has announced that 52 coal companies, including two Australian ones, will be excluded from the roughly $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. The exclusions came after the introduction in February of a new "product-based coal criterion" ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Brazil unemployment The unemployment rate in Latin America's biggest economy jumped to 8.2% in February from 7.6% in the previous month. This is slightly higher than expectations for a rise to 8.1% but is the highest since May 2009. Hardly surprising ...

AMMA adds voice to superannuation choice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
AMMA (Australian Mines and Metals Association) has welcomed proposed legislation to ensure unions cannot stop Australian employees choosing their own superannuation fund. In response to the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Choice of Fund) Bill ...

Emslie departs AIST board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... directors," Garcia said. Other changes to the board include the appointment of trustee elected directors Catherine Bolger (Mine Wealth + Wellbeing) and Craig Peate (Local Government Super), and the appointment of staff elected director Mark Puli (ESS ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... Higgins from PIMCO won the ANZ People's Choice Award for her energetic reprisal of a classic, Guns and Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine'. There was no shortage of talent onstage: Tim Sanderson from Count won the Challenger Best Male Artist award for his take ...

Industry fund doubles investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
After flagging its investment team will expand in 2016, Mine Wealth + Wellbeing has appointed five new professionals to begin over the coming months. The $10 billion industry superannuation fund now doubles its investment team from five to 10, with ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... world where low and/or declining prices have become the norm, headlines like these are sure to catch attention as it did mine... until you discover that Britain's headline inflation rate a year ago was a whopping 0.3%. We all know what this means, the ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... for the US jobs market. Looked at in isolation, continued US labour market strength pooh-poohs recent concerns (including mine) that the weak global economy coupled with the US dollar strength is coming back/has come back to bite the US economy's behind. ...

Mine Wealth + Wellbeing appoints interim CEO

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
Mine Wealth + Wellbeing has appointed an interim CEO to oversee the industry super fund when incumbent Bruce Watson departs after 23 years. Current chief governance and risk officer Nicole Killen will step into the role while the mining industry fund ...