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Employers divided on internal social media effectiveness

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
While more than 50% of employers are using social media to communicate and build community with their employees, there is little consensus as to which tools are most effective. According to a flash survey by global professional services company Towers ...

Frontier and Rogerscasey form research alliance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
Frontier Advisors and Segal Rogerscasey have partnered to establish a Global Investment Research Alliance (GIRA) to share research on investment managers across the globe. The Alliance is expected to expand to a maximum of six members with additional ...

Bissaker sets sights on Big Four market share

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... get some results around product design and product release which is probably quicker and more nimble than a large organization," he said. Bissaker, stepped down chief executive of Colonial First State in May last year and has been working as a consultant ...

ASIC chair appointed to IOSCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... peak body that represents 32 securities regulatory authorities. Medcraft took over as chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) during a board meeting last week. Medcraft succeeds Masamichi Kono of the Japan Financial ...

New chair at Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... than 20 years of business and community experience and is the current and founding CEO of Green Cross Australia, an organization set up in 1993 by Mikhail Gorbachev to create a new approach to solving the world's most pressing environmental challenges. ...

Elixir adds business coach to consultancy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
Financial planning consultancy Elixir Consulting has appointed Geoff Pritchard as a business coach. Servicing Melbourne and Perth, Pritchard will provide business coaching, speaking services and corporate consulting to financial planning professionals. ...

New charity regulator promises less red tape

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... volunteering. Antonia Ruffell, chief executive of Australian Philanthropic Services welcomed the launch says that any organization which focuses the public on charity and giving can only be a good thing. "ACNC's greater demand for accountability and ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
So what else is new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro ...

Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has been elected chairman of the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) at the annual conference in Beijing. Medcraft's IOSCO term will begin when current chairman, Masamichi Kono, steps ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... tailored to their capacity to pay, according to the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the International Labour Organization and the Munich Re Foundation. The ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008 with the support of a grant ...