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Remembering Kevin Cottrill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The long-serving chair of AMIST Super is being remembered for his unwavering advocacy following his passing last weekend. Kevin Cottrill was a director of the $2 billion fund for 22 years, having served as chair for the past 21 years. He passed away ...

Super funds embrace derivatives to meet retirement goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
Superannuation funds are increasingly using derivatives to combat sequencing risk as the demand for more retirement-focused products grows, the latest Milliman survey shows. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage said as financial ...

Meat industry fund welcomes new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
AMIST Super appointed a new chief executive following the retirement of James Thomas. The meat industry super fund has promoted its head of investments and head of governance Murray Rutherford to the dual role of chief executive and chief investment ...

Industry rolls out anti-sexual harassment ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
Amid the countless sexual harassment claims made against high-profile men coming to the fore, an exchange-traded fund that invests in companies championing women's rights in the workplace is due to launch in early 2018. The Impact Shares YWCA Women's ...

Watermark hires global equities lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Watermark Funds Management looked offshore to appoint a global equity markets lead. Hailing from London, Harvey Migotti will join the Sydney-based long-short investment manager as head of international equities. He was most recently an analyst at global ...

Major banks overlooking elder abuse

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
The Australian Bankers Association and the four major banks aren't doing enough to prevent elder financial abuse, particularly within branches where they are most vulnerable, an advocate group said. Michael Riley, chief executive of not-for-profit organisation ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
"If we manage to put the unconventional tools back into the box when the time comes, we will be able to claim that the ECB successfully achieved its objective. And in my view, this time has come. We need to discuss how to exit from our unconventional ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
One thing stood out when the Reserve Banks of India (RBI), Australia (RBA) and New Zealand (RBNZ) conducted their monetary policy meetings in August, and that is... they all want a lower exchange rate (please sir). Both the RBA and the RBNZ kept interest ...

Suncorp hails diversity amid profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
Suncorp chair Ziggy Switkowski praised the group's 49% female leadership while announcing a 3% boost in net profit to $1.075 billion. The update on the banking and wealth management firm's diversity figures forms part of Suncorp's new corporate responsibility ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
While there's a few ups and downs, Markit Economics' fresh batch of flash PMI estimates hasn't altered from the prevailing dynamics in the world's biggest economies of continued expansion in manufacturing and service sector activity and low or easing ...