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PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... do tap, jazz, ballet and I loved the theatre and acting and thought that was going to be my path right through my high school years. It was during my first work experience in the theatre at the Seymour Centre while I was studying economics in Sydney ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... The results take into account the A$8.1 billion half yearly charge for Gulf of Mexico compensation. UK's Warwick Business School professor David Elmes, an expert in the global energy sector, said the result reflects continued challenges for the industry. ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... college education could not raise $2000 for an emergency. The ratio rises to a staggering 45% for people with only a high school education. One in five Americans meanwhile have outstanding unpaid medical debts and that 29% of home mortgage borrowers ...

Diversity isn't going to a Chinese restaurant: PwC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
Diversity in corporate governance means more than the board of directors going to a Chinese restaurant now and then, according to PwC partner Ken Woo. Speaking on a diversity panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Woo acknowledged a natural ...

Industry fund appoints new CSO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has achieved a Certificate of Business Excellence from the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Mine Wealth + Wellbeing has more than $9.4 billion in funds under management and more than ...

New resource hopes to inspire women

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... careers, lives and businesses through personal insights and tips. The series will provide mentoring through providing "old school methods and delivering them via video", education through tips and traps Kent has found from her experience and will also ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... I even sold one security." Three months after taking the job, Kelton was back on the job market and turned to his high school economics teacher for help. "He mentioned a small firm called Vanguard that he'd heard good things about from an ex-student," ...

Gardior appoints ANZ vet as new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Wholesale infrastructure investment manager Gardior has appointed a new director to its board. Ian Gillings joins Gardior as the representative of shareholder Australian Catholic Schools & Retirement Fund (ACSRF); he will also sit on the Gardior's utilities ...

Well over $3m in super savings needed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... superannuation savings cap should be at least doubled, according to the SMSF Owners' Alliance and research from former head of the school of economics at the University of New South Wales, Ron Bewley. The research concluded that "around $3.2 million ...

NZ Super appoints two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... He was a member of the advisory board at the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and the Faculty Advisory Board at UBC Sauder School of Business. The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation is one of Canada's largest institutional investors. Williamson ...