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NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
NEOS Life has made several senior appointments, including new leads for its actuary, claims and implementation departments. Kirshan Reddy joined as chief actuary in February after working at MLC Life Insurance as the head of profitability and performance ...

UK drags Bravura performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... operations, professional services work has declined thanks to COVID-19 and uncertainty in the market continues. Meanwhile, South Africa has been significantly impacted by the pandemic and has prompted Bravura to implement tighter cost control. "Furthermore ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Wall Street's down. Repeat, Wall Street's down! The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped by 9.5% in the last trading day of the first month of 2021 to 33.09 points, marking the highest since the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in Europe that subsequently ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... This, along with the still disrupted supply chains in still highly infected iron ore exporters - namely, Brazil and South Africa - augurs well for iron ore prices going forward. This would be a godsend for Australia, in terms of economic growth and the ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... the dying days of 2020. All looked swell... until the coronavirus variant that was first spotted in the UK and in South Africa. It's reportedly less deadly but more infectious and has already triggered renewed lockdowns in Europe and Asia and the ...

WTW appoints Australia segment head

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... it bought Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. WTW is the third-largest asset consultant by assets in not-for-profit superannuation funds as at 30 June 2020, according ...

Senior appointments at HLB Mann Judd

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... advice and experience in the field." Wirtz has 20 years' experience in professional services throughout Australia, South Africa, Brazil, China and Japan. His remit will be the provision of tax consulting services to Australian-based companies, ranging ...

Investec to close Aussie business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... performance of the Australian business or employees, but a "strategic exit" to focus on its core markets of UK and South Africa. It will exit Australia over the coming 18 months, and 98 staff in total will be impacted. Investec has reached an agreement ...

Zurich adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... will join as head of strategy. She has been with TAL for over four years, and has previously held roles with FNB South Africa and PwC. Zurich said Marshall will lead several critical enterprise wide projects and will drive long-term strategy. "We are ...

Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... strong rules. Australia's peers in this group were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the US and UK. The 10 governance factors Calvert looked at included accounting risk, audit oversight, board effectiveness ...