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COVID-19 uncertainty sees AMP withdraw guidance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... pandemic has now surpassed 21,000, with nearly 470,000 cases worldwide, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University. The financial services giant joins a string of other listed companies that have withdrawn their FY2020 guidance due to the ...

Calls for super release to borrow from RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
A University of Melbourne finance professor and Super Consumer Australia director has proposed an alternative solution to soften the blow of COVID-19, one reliant on borrowing funds from the Reserve Bank of Australia rather than superannuation funds. ...

National Stock Exchange names new chief executive

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... Karantzis was heralded for his wealth of experience and education. "John holds academic qualifications in engineering (University of Western Australia), law, and enterprise (University of Melbourne), with a broad understanding of international regulatory ...

ANU to help determine fate of SG increase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
Australian National University (ANU) has been selected by the Morrison government to analyse whether wages will be harmed if the superannuation guarantee is increased to 12%. Robb Preston, manager of Treasury's retirement income policy division, told ...

Women rule ESG, but gap remains

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... society - we need different perspectives, backgrounds and knowledge to bring to the table beyond a narrow finance major university background." Williams echoes this sentiment. "If we are all the same, we run the risk of being stuck in an echo chamber ...

UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has announced it will move away from investment in fossil fuels. The University said it will divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include public equities and corporate bonds of companies ...

EQT bolsters board

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... in leadership, social justice advocacy and to the business community. She also has an honorary doctorate from Monash University, has been inducted into the Australian Property Hall of Fame, made an honorary life member of the Property Council of Australia ...

WTW boosts Australian leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and received his Bachelor of Commerce and Applied Finance from Macquarie University. In addition, the company named Andrew Povah as head of core advisory. Povah will spearhead the company's traditional advisory ...

Retirement review goes off the rails

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... Financial Standard understands several late submissions will be accepted by the review secretariat - the submissions of University of Sydney research fellow Cameron Murray and the Australian National University had already stirred the pot. Murray's submission ...

Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... its continued investment in fossil fuels, this time directly from its members. Led by advocacy group Market Forces, university academics are today protesting against what they describe as UniSuper's "continued funding of fossil fuel expansion". Market ...