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Actuary of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
... Actuary of the Year for his work on social issues. Hugh Miller focuses on using data and complex analysis to improve public policy outcomes including intergenerational equity, homelessness, children who are in out-of home-care, suicide prevention initiatives ...

AFMA names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... with a focus on risk management and regulatory change and this will be critical as AFMA continues its advocacy for public policy and regulation that promote fair, competitive, and efficient markets. On Lynch departing, Bedwell said: "Under his leadership ...

Super, fund manager ASX dominance launches inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... companies," Wilson said. "Common ownership's flow-on risks higher prices and collusion, corporates imposing public policy agendas while bypassing democracy, and disempowering ordinary investors. The law shouldn't empower capital over citizens ...

Super, ASIC beneficiaries of advice challenges: Hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... winning, isn't it Mr Falinski?" Pondering this, Falinski said: "So, we have a situation where we're introducing public policy out of a Royal Commission... And we get to the point where ASIC's now charging the very industry that they're ...

Maths an unpopular subject with high schoolers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... Actuaries Institute said it will develop a policy position statement and press federal and state governments to review public policy.

SMSFA adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... of retirement incomes policy issues," SMSFA chair Andrew Hamilton said. "Her many years of being involved in key public policy debates in the financial services industry, with a focus on innovation and retirement issues, is a resource that the Association ...

VFMC adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has appointed a public policy expert as a non-executive director. Tom Considine is an advisory and investment partner at Sayers Group having joined from Suburban Rail Loop Authority where he was interim chief executive. ...

FPA to manage $1.5m scholarship mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... help more consumers," he said. Payne said: "People with a background in finance or economics play a central role in public policy and decision-making, however, women are under-represented in these industries and roles." "We want to see increased representation ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... of China. He added that US-China regional competition is complex and nuanced. PIMCO managing director and head of public policy Libby Cantrill agreed with Ruthven that COVID-19 needs a little perspective, in light of ongoing geopolitical issues like ...

Rice Warner prepares to shut up shop

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... Aware) and the proposed merger between Media Super and Cbus. Rice and actuary David Knox have both been active in public policy discussions on superannuation. Rice Warner said that in 1996 Knox and Rice met with then Prime Minister John Howard to discuss ...