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Former HESTA chair joins Assemble

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... Responsible Investment (PRI) and serves as an expert advisor on the HESTA Impact Committee. She is also chair of Suicide Prevention Australia, where she is an advocate for national leadership in suicide prevention. A new investor in the company, AustralianSuper ...

Insurers must shape up on mental health: TAL

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... health terminology, diagnosis, and treatment, to the way we are designing products, addressing support, and delivering prevention initiatives," TAL Group chief executive Brett Clark said. "The importance of maintaining mental health has been brought ...

Healthcare dominates impact investing: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Around a third of investors in the US and UK specified healthcare/diseases prevention and cures as the cause that matters most to them. German investors however, responded with environment and sustainability ...

APRA reduces ERS reporting for funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... reported on a monthly basis through to 31 January 2021. This means APRA will be putting a greater focus on fraud risk and prevention in the early release scheme. Funds will need to tell the regulator how many total fraud incidents, both internal and ...

Hearts and Minds donates almost $10m to charity

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... Sydney. "These donated monies will be used by the medical research organisations to fund important research into the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases and mental health disorders," HM1 said in its annual report. "The current pandemic highlights ...

Impact investing in healthcare: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... American Century, Jim Stowers, founded the Stowers Institute which is dedicated to uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of genetic diseases like cancer. The Stowers Institute owns a controlling interest in American Century which sees around ...

Synchron compliance lead resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... compliance. Earlier in his career, Jones worked as a compliance manager at IFM Investors and senior compliance officer, fraud prevention officer at National Australia Bank. Hanna Abdullah will step into the position of head of compliance - policy and ...

Cyber criminals jump on ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... scams data regarding COVID-19 collected via Scamwatch to identify trends, monitor financial losses and inform our scam prevention strategies. He said the ACCC receives a large number of scam reports each year (167,801 in 2019), but the scam reports in ...

Platform prototypes compliance capability

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... wealth," Alcock said. It's what he believes will become a major role for platforms in the coming years; allowing for prevention of issues, rather than detection after the fact. "The adviser gets to spend more time helping the client, rather than running ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... (so far) to stop the spread of the coronavirus. But it's spreading across Europe. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reports that: "As of 25 February, 276 cases and seven deaths have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: 229 ...