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FPA appoints new education head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... experience and the introduction of new technologies in the delivery of the program. Prior to joining the FPA, he drove learning content design and development for the College of Law, where he also oversaw the implementation of a new learning management ...

NAB partnership puts adviser education at forefront

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... believe ethics is critical to the ongoing professionalism of the industry and should be incorporated through professional learning as well as within ethical codes and processes of professional bodies." DeakinPrime and DeakinDigital chief executive officer ...

Mentor Education appoints new chair

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... leader. The appointment marks a significant milestone for the Australian-owned provider of quality financial industry learning, training and development programs. Mentor Education founder and managing director Dr Mark Sinclair said: "I am very excited ...

Melbourne and Perth to receive a $25m arts education initiative

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... promoting creativity most of these programs are education focused, using art as the vehicle to engage youth with their learning and their community. The Crown Resorts Foundation Board is chaired by The Hon. Helen Coonan, and the Packer Family Foundation ...

Bravura gives VicSuper tech overhaul

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... performance and efficiency needed to set VicSuper apart from competitors. Webinars, videos, calculators, email-based learning programs and purpose-built websites now form the basis of much of VicSuper's communication, marketing and education. Since the ...

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 ...