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Industry fund named top employer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... Kincentric Best Employer, an award based on the feedback of its staff. Kincentric, a global consulting firm specialising in human capital, offers the certification - previously known as the Aon Best Employer - to organisations which "strive to continuously ...

Create coalitions for change: Martin Currie

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... acceptable, to think of our actions as simply defined by the binary outcomes of financial risk and return. "As the pressures of human activity on our planet become increasingly impactful - whether through pandemic risk, climate threat or biodiversity ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... Newcomb said it's important for both advisers and clients to understand that these mistakes and biases are all part of being human - and are not even necessarily errors. "We know that even in normal times we're prone to biases and misjudgments because ...

Macquarie advice shift offers mixed results

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... subject to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The final months of the financial year were overshadowed by the profound human impact of the COVID-19 global health crisis and its economic consequences," Wikramanayake said. "Macquarie's full-year ...

Northern Trust takes report centre to the cloud

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... enhanced scheduling and interactive reporting, and event and time-based report generation triggers. The firm applied a "human-centred" design approach to the redesign of the tool, and which it said allowed it to create a "contemporary user experience" ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
"Flattening the curve". This is the overriding aim of governments and health officials everywhere when they implemented or advise social isolation, social distancing limits and lockdown measures. Many have (or are beginning to) flattened their respective ...

Now is the time to step up: FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... are really practical for our members and people are telling us they're looking forward to them each day, leaning into the human connection." Tullio said there's been three broad themes emerge from the discussions had, and the first is around leading ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Has the world reached peak isolation? The growing clamour to ease/end social restrictions and lockdowns indicates that "inmates" are growing restless. Humans, after all, are social animals. There's only so much online interaction - Facebook, Whatsapp ...

ESG investing now mainstream: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... investing, he said. "The current situation has acted as a wake-up call in many respects," Green said. "It underscores that human health is reliant upon healthy ecosystems; that we need to ensure the sustainability of supply chains; and that those companies ...

Former State Super investments chief returns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
A former State Super chief investment officer is returning to the fund as a director. Lisbeth Rasmussen has joined the board of State Super, three years after departing the fund and the role of chief investment officer. Rasmussen left the fund in late ...