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Australia and UK to shape retirement landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... Wise," Fraser said. Fraser will be presenting at CMSF on retirement governance. He will present during one of the ME Learning Lab sessions. "It's interesting for me that the Australian market, along with some of the Scandinavian funds have led the way ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... and pension plans. "For a young person in their twenties, you would be traveling a lot, being in different countries, learning about different pension plans and economies," she explains. McGowan was constantly surprised by work. "One day you would be ...

Government help needed to remove innovation obstacles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... space but that policies would be more effective if government listened to practitioners in the respective industries, learning from what has gone before and worked overseas. "To get greater investment in technology we need the right structures, right ...

ASFA chief executive Vamos to step down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... the success we have achieved in recent years-particularly in influencing policy, lifting industry standards through our learning programs, delivering our renowned world-class annual Conference and engaging with other pension systems globally. "Whilst ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Tens of thousands of public sector pensioners are learning the scale of changes to their defined benefit schemes that sees cuts to exemptions for the Centrelink pension income test. In June last year the federal parliament introduced a 10% cap on defined ...

Paying women more super not the answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... in financial literacy for women was closing because women were becoming stronger decision makers in relationships and learning about money was empowering them. Bloom Advisory Group's Jennifer Porter said people are still not embracing super at lower ...

Two IPAC advisers join independent firm

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Independent advice firm Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has recruited two senior advisers from IPAC to its AFSL in Victoria. Bev Manallack and Heather Boughton join the company on 7 December from IPAC and will operate out of Fitzpatricks' Collins Street ...

FoFA end marks start of new advice era

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... will be given two more years -until July 2019- to adapt to the new framework. "There will be some recognition to prior learning, but you will always have to complete a one-off exam. If you haven't passed the exam in July 2019, you won't be able to be ...

Swiss Re to use artificial intelligence in underwriting

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... remotely via cloud services and analyses large amounts of data to generate insights and refine its process through machine learning. It famously competed in (and won) quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011, taking the $1 million first prize. "We are continuously ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... we're being forced if you like legislatively to put systems in place," Houlihan says. When quizzed about some of the learning over his 30-year career, Houlihan says most importantly he has learnt to be patient. "I think being patient with the staff and ...