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PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... in every role. To someone mostly focused on building portfolios and delivering returns, realising the importance of the human element in the workplace has been the hardest - but most valuable - career lesson. Born in a small village in South Australia ...

Christian super funds merge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... Christians," he said. Christian Super has strict negative and positive screening policies on areas such as gambling, pornography, human rights and renewable energy. Australian Christian Super currently operates on an outsourced model. Under the merger ...

APRA announces draft 2014-15 supervisory levies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) activities, $7 million for Tax Office activities and $5 million for Department of Human Services activities which look after early release of superannuation benefit applications. As a result of these funding ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... manufacture, gambling outlets or systems, intensive animal farming, animal testing for cosmetics, activities that give rise to human rights violations, unremediated destruction of the environment, uranium mining and nuclear reactors." In one of its funds ...

Higher pension age to drive increase in early super releases

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... arbitraging their entitlements. Early release of superannuation before the preservation age has been handled by the Department of Human Services since 2011. According to their own figures, only 18,000 people last financial year applied for early release ...

Over 50s want to work longer, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... 52% in 2012. For respondents aged over 70 the figure was 57%. The report also included interviews with 15 employers and human resources managers. From these interviews the report concluded that "a positive shift is underway in the way Australian employers ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
A recent high-profile book criticising high frequency trading (HFT) has been branded 'nonsense' by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) with the group urging regulators not to respond to the scaremongering. The research body has released ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... Oxford Martin Program research into the impacts of future technology. "The trend is clear: computers increasingly challenge human labour in a wide range of cognitive tasks," the "Future of employment" paper stated. Researchers note that up until now ...

ATO takes over SME super clearing house

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has taken over responsibility from the Department of Human Services for the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House. This move is part of the government's commitment to streamline processes and it believes the ...