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Executive hires at SCOR Global Life

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... effective next week. In addition to running his own private practices, Cummins' work focuses on evidence-based preventative medicine mainly around screening and managing cardiovascular diseases and cancer. He is the founder and principal of Executive ...

Industry giant retires

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Celebrated financial services figure Barry Lambert is retiring from the Class board of directors. Lambert, aged 70, said he is retiring to concentrate on campaign work for greenlight.support, an advocacy group which lobbies for patients to have access ...

BT health score helping claimants back to work

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... health support experts. The program is based on research from the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). Their research suggests that, generally speaking, work is good for ...

AMP gets court date for China fund appeal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corp, China Vanke Cok, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. Despite LIM Advisors' wind-up proposal - made on the basis that AGF is "not fit for purpose" - AMP Capital is urging unitholders ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... advantage of the shorter-term opportunities that arise in emerging markets' currencies as the Fed keeps applying the same medicine of monetary forbearance, which can generate short-term boosts to asset prices," Fine said.

PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting, law and engineering) can "share in the profits of the insurance that they buy" through financial advisers, according ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a member of the advisory council at UNSW Medicine; an advisory finance committee member at Sisters of Charity; a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW) and an ambassador for ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have distributed almost $1.5 million to seven biomedical researchers. The foundations' trustee, Perpetual, confirmed that $1 million of the philanthropic funds will go towards research that is looking to reduce ...

BOQ appoints former Wallaby as specialist chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... has agreed to become CEO of BOQ Specialist. Brett is a qualified medical professional, has had a successful career in medicine and financial services and has developed extensive networks throughout his professional and international rugby career," said ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The success of technology start-ups and Australia's maturing venture capital sector are driving superannuation funds to reconsider VC as an asset class. In September, First State Super and Hostplus invested $110 million and $35 million respectively ...