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Advance AM head of strategy steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... visit my Mum and Dad who are buried in the churchyard near there," he said. "During one of those visits I went to my old college, and I saw there were 11 kids, all with some kind of disability. And that's what started me thinking, There's more to life ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... have heard. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference, Robin Chase of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians said often workplace injuries are just the beginning of health problems, and that joblessness was a major health ...

PROFILE: Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... of the superannuation industry. The son of a small business owner and a schoolteacher, Hartley went to Brisbane Boys' College before studying a bachelor of business at Queensland University of Technology. On graduating at the age of 23, he spent the ...

Global body calls for Asia Funds Passport rethink

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... approaches across the region will help ensure the passport's success. The group also recommends that the six countries form a "college or group of representatives from member economies" to monitor passport developments and help resolve differences in ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... moved to his mother's native Sydney. At the age of 17 at the suggestion of his father Bell enrolled in Duntroon military college. "It was a tough, all-male, environment," he says. "Either you met the standard or you were out. It wasn't a finishing school ...

NZ Super sells forestry stake to iwi group

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... pension fund, Public Sector Pension Investment Board at 30%, and an affiliate of the President and Fellows of Harvard College at 28.75%. The group of iwi have called themselves the Kakano Investment Limited Partnership (Kakano), and comprise Ngati Rangitihi ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did not have the auspicious start you might expect. As a schoolboy at Sydney's Newington College he only made the second XV. It wasn't until he had enrolled in an arts degree at the University of New South Wales - with ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... and her mother stayed home to look after the family. When Constantinidis signed up for a secretarial course at Granville College at 16, they were concerned that she was delaying getting on with having a family of her own. In spite of the pressure, she ...

Pension uncertainty for municipal workers in Detroit

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... crisis. Jean-Pierre Aubry, assistant director of state and local research at the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College, said change needs to happen for the public pension system to work. "They made their contributions. They were promised a ...

Academic questions Libs' super board independence policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... ensuring super fund board independence could be counterproductive, according to Sally Wheeler, professor of law at Queen's College, Belfast. Speaking at an event hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA), Professor Wheeler ...