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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 ...

AFS school boosts revenues by 27 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Australian Financial Services (AFS) Business School graduates recorded a 27 per cent growth in revenues on average six months after they returned to the office. Peter Daly, AFS Group chief executive, said the Business School exceeded all the firm's ...

UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and the Institute of Financial Planning last month. The programme aims to provide undergraduates with hands-on experience of ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... been lost," said Dr Sam Kovacevic, an expert on executive remuneration from Organisation and Management at the Australian School of Business. Kovacevic said the changes are well overdue and will not - contrary to popular view - drive talent away from ...

NGS Super targets female fin lit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... heads to action style clips designed to engage members and communicate more effectively." The $2.5 billion non-government school staff super fund website features a salary sacrifice calculator, detailed insurance costs and information on different investment ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... you develop documentation catered for those events." AMPFP boasts 650 practices and 1,300 planners. It opened a planning school two years ago, the Horizon Financial Planning Academy, which offers a six-week training in Sydney, a two-week internship at ...