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ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... General Insurance Advisory Committee. Philip Maguire, principal at Professional Financial Solutions; Tiina Takolander assistant vice president at Credit Suisse Private Banking and Michael Davies, director of technical assessing and education director ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... serious impact not just on the finances of African women but on their mortality rates too, said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank vice president for the Africa Region. The global economic crisis will drastically reduce African women's individual incomes ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... changed, we are not ok. More money is needed. Do you recall the headlines of just around two weeks ago? Back then the US Vice President and the US President's Economic Adviser backed each other saying that America's stimulus measures were not enough. ...

GFC spurs DB plans commitment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... use financial instruments such as swaps, futures, forwards and options to manage risk in their DB plans," said Sam Knox, vice president and director of research, CFO Research Services. "Conversely, those respondents whose plans were hardest hit by recent ...

SMSF trustee group closes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... closed and its membership has been given the opportunity to join the Australian Investors Association (AIA). Graeme Colley, vice chair at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), said SMSMA spoke with SPAA about taking ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Poor's even made the headlines when it warned that it could downgrade the UK's country debt rating. This time no less than US Vice President Joe Biden is pondering a second stimulus. This is backed by Laura Tyson - a member of President Obama's Economic ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... disclosure could lead to greater investment in emerging market countries by responsible investors. Indeed, Lauren Compere, senior vice president of Boston Common Asset Management and the EMDP's Korean country team leader, said the firm would like to ...

Bigger and better risk management

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... exercises. Apama, a complex event processing platform, is also used by the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Dan Foody, vice president of Progress Actional said following the high-profile fraud cases such as last year's Societe Generale's internal ...

Nicholas-Applegate closes Australian offices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... heads the US West Coast client service team and has been with Nicholas-Applegate for ten years. John Hamer, who was senior vice president in client service and sales in Sydney, and Melanie Douglas, who headed client services in Melbourne, will both leave ...

HK investors wary of local market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... economy, local investors tend to invest in markets in which they have the most confidence and that's China," said Grace Tam, vice president of investment services at the firm. "China is still eyeing positive growth of 8 per cent this year. China is likely ...