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Adviser education bar too low

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... there is no direct answer, but education should be a "moving target", in other words rigorous continued professional development and improvement. "Given that we're [handling] people's money and people's lives, and that they trust us to execute to execute ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... businesses to pay superannuation contributions with the touch of a button," said Adrian Lovney, general manager of business development, strategy and people at Cuscal. According to a statement, an estimated $100 billion of super contributions are made ...

Capstone FP eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... said the group's additional focus is to ensure its practices are running efficiently by using technology. "Technology development is top of the charts for us - not just choosing Xplan or COIN, I mean looking at technology in the whole business," he s ...

State Street appoints sales head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... The new position, based in Sydney, will be responsible for setting the strategic direction for sales and business development opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. Michael Brager, senior vice president of State Street's Investor Services business ...

QSuper call centre wins top gong

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... fund] in a long time" to win the teleservices centre of the year award. "What they've got... is very strong staff development, with the actual staff developing the culture, division and they also set the characteristics of the centre. "There's really ...

ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... at AICLA all joined the Institute Academic Council. The council assists the institute's education and professional development programs by providing advice on how to improve its courses. Tracey Martin, manager of policy development for general insurance ...

Bluedoor Technology on hiring spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... additional 15 employees. "We're well up over the 50 mark and growing as we speak. We're hiring people mainly in software development but also people with skills in platforms or superannuation or member record keeping and people with generic project management ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... 20 years," said Ezekwesili, citing the findings of the latest edition of the annual World Bank publication, Africa Development Indicators (ADI). The global economic crisis, Ezekwesili explained, is likely to hit African women on two fronts. First, it ...

Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... calendar year 2009," he said. Yellow Brick Road is also taking a different approach to hiring its next head of business development - launching its own version of The Apprentice, a show made famous by US billionaire Donald Trump. "The show is set to ...

Avoid financial speculation: Pontiff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... sustainability of the enterprise." His comments are on chapter three of the encyclical titled "Fraternity, Economic Development and Civil Society", which was released last month. The economic shock caused by the GFC requires "a profoundly new way of ...