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Future Fund guardian joins Coffey International

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... Suncorp-Metway as managing director and chief executive for six years. Prior to his career at Suncorp, he held several senior executive roles in the Commonwealth Bank, including group executive, investment and insurance services. Mulcahy has also headed ...

Mercer restructures outsourcing business, Walters exits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Mercer is revamping its outsourcing business resulting in several new roles being created and senior executives including financial advice leader Scott Walters leaving the firm. As part of the changes, Mercer has replaced the financial advice leader ...

Gen-Y in a bottle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... base in 10 years' time, if they don't drastically change their communication channels today. Rocky Scopelliti, a senior executive at Telstra, authored one of the most comprehensive research ever to be released in Australia on Gen-Yers and how they use ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Financial services data in the clouds? You betcha. At least that's what Microsoft is going to do from early next year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial ...

GFC spurs DB plans commitment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
If you think the GFC had pushed pension funds away from defined benefit plans, think again - more than 70 per cent of fund executives have no intention of changing their DB plan structures. A new survey by Towers Perrin and SCO noted that while the ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... around 80 per cent, the CAAM Funds Volatility World Fund returned 26 per cent. StA(C)phane Mauppin-Higashino, a senior executive from CAAM's base in Paris, said that having studied and finetuned their volatility strategies in the past 10 years, they ...

CS appoints head of asset management Aus

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Credit Suisse has appointed Filo Sedillo as head of asset management Australia. Sedillo previously worked at Citigroup as head of alternative investments for Australia and New Zealand. He also worked in senior institutional client management roles in ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... decisions in-house anyway, the next logical step is to manage the same investment data internally, said Rod Dew, senior executive at investment technology firm SimCorp. For example, super funds can use SimCorp's flagship product, SimCorp Dimension, as ...

Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Goodbye golden parachutes - APRA has released a consultation package encouraging financial services firms to set up stricter guidelines when deciding executive remuneration. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is recommending its regulated ...

Half a billion up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... still in the Government's custody, followed closely by company shareholdings ($258 million). Delia Rickard, ASIC senior executive leader, consumers and retail investors, encouraged people to search for their unclaimed money, which could be found from ...