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Planners must build trust and stay on message: Koch

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... the ride with them. "It's that trust, that building up of trust, that's so important for them. They need to trust you as a human being," he said. "People don't want to be made to feel guilty." Koch said that there was also a mistaken assumption that ...

NZ Super appoints COO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... we are looking forward to having him on board." The heads of operations, strategic projects and IT, communications, risk, human resources and administration, which used to report to Andrew Orr, will all now report to Fennel. Fennel himself will report ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

... with one or two of the emerging markets," he explained. BlackRock's quant funds have been tagged as "quant funds with a human touch" by US-publication Business Week because, while a bulk of the screening are done through number-crunching and computer ...

Life settlement fund launches in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
A wholesale fund that enables investors to gain exposure to life insurance policy settlements is now available in Australia. The fund works like a fixed interest investment as the portfolio managers trade life settlements on the secondary market where ...

Mercer unveils web-based compliance for super funds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
... funds that cannot afford the luxury of employing a full-time compliance officer," explained Rita Harris, principal at Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The result is 'ExtraTextual', a web-based compliance technology that allows compliance managers to ...

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... indirect investments in weapons producers Textron and Raytheon, which produce cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are abhorred by human rights groups which claim they kill more civilians than soldiers. The fund also has small investments in some of the worlds ...

Mercer announces new head of sales

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
Mercer Human Resource Consulting has appointed a new head of sales charged with developing a dynamic sales culture across the business as well as and building on current capabilities. David Christensen joins Mercer from his Hong Kong based consultancy ...

KiwiSaver appoints default providers

AMP, AXA New Zealand, ING (NZ), TOWER, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and ASB Group have been named the six default providers ready to accept members under New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme to launch in July next year. Finance Minister Michael Cullen ...

Superpartner looks to health care to recruit senior execs

... at Colonial Limited and Australia Post. Meanwhile, new executive manager Jarvis is a former director of shared services human resources with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Australasia. The two appointments add a distinctive health care industry backbone ...

Unit pricing not always best: Buttler Walker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... But shifting to unit pricing doesn't solve all the problems either. "Based on published reports and our own experience, human error has been by far the largest cause of material error in unit pricing." ButtlerWalker said that one of the reasons super ...