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CalPERS takes legal action against state furloughs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... more than 2,300 employees and administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired State, public school, and local public agency employees on behalf of 2,600 California public employers, and health benefits for nearly 1.3 million ...

Independent directors not always a good thing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... likely to bring more value after the GFC, said an academic expert. RenA(C)e Adams, professor of finance at UQ Business School and a contributing author to SimCorp StrategyLab's recently launched book, Understanding the financial crisis: Investment, risk ...

Seton named fund executive of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... in the fund's member services. Seton received a $20,000 education grant to study at an international recognised business school. "Michael has led AGEST through a major transformation from a small fund to a $3 billion fund with a sophisticated actively ...

State Street appoints sales head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... with dual majors in international business and marketing and he is currently completing his MBA at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... said. "The face of poverty is female," she said. "She is 18.5 years old. She lives in a rural area. She has dropped out of school. She is single, but is about to be married or be given in marriage to a man approximately twice her age. She will be the ...

Legalsuper hires investment expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... financial market insights from academic research over six years as Associate Professor of Finance at the Melbourne Business School," said Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of legalsuper. "We see this appointment as a logical and prudent step in evolving ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. ...

Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2.6 billion industry super fund NGS Super has appointed Mercer as its administrator and financial advice provider to its members. Mercer announced yesterday its appointment to oversee the non-Government schools industry fund's member services ...

Clouds still far away

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... Australia, around 80 per cent of Australian companies are not using cloud-computing systems, choosing instead to depend on old school internal IT systems. Meanwhile, the survey also confirmed that seven out of ten companies currently depending on internal ...