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Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... technician at a steel factory and now chairs Evergrande Group which has 800 projects in more than 280 cities, according to Forbes. The next two billionaires to graduate to trillionaires will be Jack Ma and Pony Ma. Jack Ma is the co-founder of Alibaba ...

MLC Life strengthens group insurance team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... roles." The appointment of Wu marks the second to MLC's group insurance business in as many weeks, following that of Andrea Forbes to the role of executive lead - relationship management, group insurance. Forbes joined from NSW Treasury and is also a ...

MLC Life appoints group insurance executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... MLC Life Insurance has appointed an executive lead to its group insurance business, recruiting from NSW Treasury. Andrea Forbes has joined MLC Life as executive lead - relationship management, group insurance. She joins from NSW Treasury where she was ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... Such is departing ECB president Mario Draghi's predicament. Listed as the 8th most powerful person in the world by Forbes in 2014, ranked as world's second greatest leader (behind Apple chief executive Tim Cook) by Fortune magazine, and described ...

Pressure mounts on regional advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... Australia prior to the AFSL shuttering. Practicing in locations such as Colac, Scone, Broken Hill, Balaklava, Ilrymple and Forbes, many of these lone advisers are - or were - one of less than six operating in the area. According to Association of Financial ...

Values-based approach will advance advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... change." She talked about reading that 2017 was an era of "smart phones and stupid people" and that competing to appear on a Forbes rich list "lacks the fundamentals of a values-based society." The presentation included stories of Zelda's metamorphosis. ...

Media powerhouse turns financial product provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... financial services, looking to form a strategic partnership with one of Asia's largest fund and asset management firms. Forbes Global Capital, a subsidiary of Forbes Global Media Holdings, has a signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong-based ...

Kristin's correct call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... unchanged may still prove to be correct, but the recent flow of economic data continue to vindicate MPC-member Kristin Forbes' dissent - she considered it appropriate to raise interest rates by 25 basis at the March meeting. Following earlier reports ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The latest inflation stats out of the UK gave additional credence to BOE monetary policy committee member Kristin Forbes' dissent - she "considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points" -- at the March meeting. Along with the low ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... specifically named one of the nine members of the monetary policy committee (MPC) who dissented with the majority: "Kristin Forbes considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points". While Kristin is due to leave the BOE in June, Reuters ...