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Sunsuper welcomes new board directors

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... and a director of Industry Super Australia, ISPT and the Mother's Day Classic Foundation. Wood was formerly the president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, as well as the assistant secretary of the Australian Services Union ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... for the year ahead, a small rise from last year's estimated 2.4%. However, for this to happen, the World Bank's vice president of equitable growth, finance and institutions Ceyla Pazarbasioglu said things have to go to plan. "Following a year during ...

La Trobe, State Super donate to bushfire appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... split between the Salvation Army Disaster Appeal and the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief Recovery Fund. La Trobe president and chief executive Greg O'Neill said: "We express our deepest sympathies to people who have suffered tremendous loss as a ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... to bullion, mining shares and gold-backed ETFs to safeguard their wealth. Fuel was added to gold's fire after US President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iranian cultural sites if Tehran carried out revenge attacks on the US, stoking fears of ...

Former Challenger executive joins ASX board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... management and asset management businesses. He started his career at Bankers Trust Australia, becoming executive vice-president and head of equity derivatives. Woods will be replaced as chair of ASX Clear by Stephen Knight, who was previously chief executive ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... Mukundan has joined the $140 billion quantitative firm's Australian office in a newly created role. He joins as vice president product and wholesale markets, in a move designed to help the firm grow its presence among financial advisers and wholesale ...

Rising tensions to weigh on markets: Moody's

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... tensions between the two nations, the eulogist at General Suleimani's funeral has called for an $80 million bounty on US President Donald Trump. "Iran has 80 million inhabitants. Based on the Iranian population, we want to raise $80 million, which is ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... accommodation." To be sure, not even Christine Lagarde wants to come out with all guns blazing in her debut as the new ECB president; nor was there urgent need to do so. The December 2019 Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area was ...

Chief economist update: It's Christmas time in the city

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
"Oh the weather outside is frightful..." While a "phase one" deal between the US and China appears to be close (again), it's still prudent not to write-off the possibility of a re-escalation in the tariff wars given Trump's recent targeting ...

Vale David Smith

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
HESTA director and former Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees president David Smith is being remembered as an inspirational leader. Smith, who was also general secretary of the Australian Services Union, passed away suddenly on November ...