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PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... says. In 1991 and after six years at the Federal Police an opportunity knocked. An amalgamation of the State Corporate Affairs Commission and National Companies Securities Commission saw the birth of the Australian Securities Commission - later becoming ...

First State Super restructures top brass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... responsibility for the digital transformation of the fund as well as further developing the organisation's brand and corporate affairs strategy. Mary was formerly the fund's chief marketing officer. The majority of First State Super's members work in ...

Advice firm ditches platform, adopts MDA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... for medical professionals, realised that most of its clients "are time poor and they want us to manage their financial affairs. We believe the new MDA solution will dramatically lift efficiency and help us add significant value for clients. This will ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... media and Government was clear proof of our own government's inadequate response to climate change. Given that state of affairs, though, it's really important universities do show leadership in this space." Environmental concerns are becoming increasingly ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... to super for the terminally ill is an important fairness measure that will allow more time for people to sort out their affairs or help pay for medical treatment," Garcia said. In its budget the federal government plans to collect an additional $46.9 ...

CFA appoints Australia head of advocacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... communications at global engineering firm WorleyParsons. Morey has more than 15 years' experience in senior corporate affairs roles in Australia and globally, including Commonwealth Bank, HSBC, Swiss Re, APRA and Perpetual. "Appointing a senior advocate ...

Advisers see regulated robo-advice opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... assets are still relatively low, advisers understand that their willingness to use technology to manage their financial affairs leads to a strong belief that Generation Z is suited to robo-advice." At the same time, over half of respondents (52%) felt ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... According to voxeu.org, "Declan Costello is an Economist working in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission since 1991." And to think we (at least I) thought that 'the institutions' and Greece were playing ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... incoming data". This, to me, is Janet's main message in her testimony before the US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee last night. Can't expect the lady to tell us when, when she and her band of merry FOMC members themselves don't know ...

Former FSC policy head gets government role

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... around half of that time as the industry body's director of policy. Most recently he was head of government and industry affairs at BT, having joined the company in December 2013. Prior to that, he spent eight years with the FSC with around half of that ...