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Chief financial officer roles 'widely ambiguous': Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... research suggests that the chief financial officer might be challenged in fulfilling these expectations." Monash Business School associate professor Paul Thambar conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 chief financial officers from Australia and ...

Most Australians proactively retire: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... to enjoy their twilight years, contrary to popular belief, a new study reveals. Research from Macquarie University's School of Psychological Sciences and Challenger surveyed about 1000 Australians aged over 60 and found that sentiment in the lead ...

More money does lead to happiness: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
New research from senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Matt Killingsworth found happiness increases with wealth. Despite previous research from Wharton suggesting that wellbeing plateaus at a certain income level, the ...

FICAP to support Aussie icon in 2024

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) will raise funds for Life Ed, the charity behind Healthy Harold, at its annual RockStar event next week. FICAP has selected Life Ed as its new charity partner in 2024, providing funding for the Healthy ...

Funds SA, Mercer Super make key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative Taxonomy Technical Experts Group and adjunct professor at Adelaide University's School of Economics. Debelle previously held roles at the International Monetary Fund, Bank for International Settlements, Australian ...

Aussies' financial literacy declines, young people fare the worst

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
Despite many initiatives, financial literacy, capability, and wellbeing levels have dropped in Australia, according to research commissioned by Ecstra Foundation and conducted by SVA Consulting. The International approaches to progressing financial ...

Crescent Wealth to merge into Russell Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
Crescent Wealth Superannuation will shut down next month; its members will be moved to the new 'Salaam' division of Russell Investments Master Trust. Following a review by Equity Trustees, the trustee for Crescent Wealth's super fund, an ...

Plenary Group sells 49% stake to ADQ

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ has acquired a 49% stake in Plenary Group as it marks its first investment in an Australian company. ADQ will inject funds into the $32 billion public infrastructure investor, developer, and manager as the latter ...

AustralianSuper hires data strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... of data strategy, analytics, and insights at the $300 billion superannuation giant. Hill joins from Melbourne Business School, where he spent almost 10 years as an adjunct lecturer developing and teaching data and AI courses for the flagship Master of ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... After 26 years, Rainmaker Information's co-founder and Financial Standard 's resident superannuation guru is going back to school - kind of. Today marks Rainmaker executive director, research Alex Dunnin's final day with the business, retiring from the ...