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Kinetic Super hires head of product

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... develop ideas quickly and efficiently - we're finding out how to fail fast and become an organisation focused on rapid learning," Green said. Ralph comes to Kinetic Super from Medibank where she spearheaded the direction and execution of its value proposition ...

NSW Advisers Big Day Out kicks off next week

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... closing soon. Feel free to pass on the invite to your colleagues, you'll get more out of the day with your colleagues learning alongside you. Dates: A A 4th August - 20th August Time: A A A 8:00am - 3:15pm Cost: A A A A A Complimentary, including morning ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... also participate. "We're pretty early in adapting to this, too," he noted. "It's going to keep evolving and we'll be learning from that experience and doing research that says, 'Yeah, we need to play a more active role.' What we wouldn't want to do ...

Kaplan launches online insurance courses

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... conjunction with senior insurance professionals to deliver courses from an industry perspective with practical and relevant learning outcomes. "With online access, practical content and flexible completion deadlines, the courses are well suited to working ...

EY and UTS form financial data partnership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... which they agree to collaborate on analytics and big data initiatives across four key areas: joint research projects; learning delivery; collaborating on the design of graduate programs that will support the future needs of financial services organisations ...

Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... house, some cash and fixed interest. Hostplus chief investment officer, Sam Sicilia, said the company spent a lot of time learning from other entities' approach to internalisation. He believes internalisation occurs for three reasons, not necessarily ...

Profile: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand chief executive Lee White

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... accountant to lead the body. He recently oversaw a history-making merger between the ICAA and NZICA and is now making lifelong learning a priority for accountants. Alice Uribe reports. By his own estimation, Lee White is from a "modest" background - ...

Next super revolution must tackle retirement: Vilgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... balance, your members are thinking." The first key to this is to tackle market risk, she said. "One of my biggest areas for learning in my career has been in behavioural finance. We aren't dealing with economic beings, we are dealing with human beings. ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
AFA chief executive Brad Fox raised concerns over the methodology of Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) report on life insurance advice that was released last week. He told the media that there were questions over the methology ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... found the opportunity to get together with Australia's best advisers at the AFA Conference accelerated my thinking, my learning and my results. Valuable connections and friendships were built throughout both the formal learning sessions and the informal ...