Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 1006 results for "Human"

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... lower cost, more abundant clean energy. We can also boost our resilience to the effects of climate change and minimise their human and economic costs." The report recommended Australia improve incentives in electricity, heavy industry and transport - ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... spin out of control. In financial advice, the three components that make up the three-body problem are the financial plan, human emotions and the investment portfolio. When something goes wrong in the markets, how a client responds can derail even the ...

Cbus deputy chief executive resigns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... 2019. Prior to joining Cbus, Walker was executive director of customer support at the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and provided executive leadership in industries including finance, logistics, utilities, energy and banking. This ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... Productivity Commission says the nation should adopt a "growth mindset" by embracing artificial intelligence (AI), boosting human capital and rejigging corporate taxes to boost static productivity levels. The report, Growth mindset: how to boost Australia's ...

ESSSuper, UniSuper spearhead member satisfaction

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... to -4% over the past year, particularly as member satisfaction edges in line with strengthened outbound communication and human-led support. Most funds showed consistent gains over the period, spearheaded by ESSSuper and UniSuper with a respective +20% ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... that boosting productivity is about empowering workers, not undermining their rights, and making the most of Australia's human capital. He said the government has a role in getting the policy setting right but added that "businesses need to step up too." ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... interests, in relation to certain instances of advice. Among the other failures, FSGA did not have adequate financial and human resources to provide the financial services covered by the licence and to carry out supervisory arrangements or maintain the ...

Fin365 to build one-stop-shop for financial firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... complement Fin365's software offerings, which includes the creation of integrated service model that combines both technology and human expertise. Fin365's offers Microsoft-leveraged solutions such as Dynamics 365, Power Automate, Power BI and Copilot. ...

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
The 2025 King's Birthday honours list featured several heavyweights from the superannuation, funds management and sustainable investing sectors. A superannuation fund investments chief was one of the recipients of the highly coveted Medal of the ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... received by the OAIC in the second half of 2024; 61% were cybersecurity incidents. As for other sources, 29% were the result of human error and 2% were due to system faults. In financial services, malicious and criminal attacks accounted for 30 of the ...