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Future Group joins campaign to ban gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... Seven or Nine shares through the SIX app or use the shares they already hold on another platform, then sign up to SIX's agency agreement. Launched last month, the fintech start-up has a small but growing base of 300 trading accounts dedicated towards ...

Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... rises for these jobs had previously been paid at different times across quarters depending on the timing of individual agency agreements," she said. AMP economist My Bui said the biggest wage rises came from industries with a large proportion of public ...

Committee calls for 'sick agency' ASIC to be split in half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... says the government should then consider whether ASIC's remit is too broad for it to be an effective and efficient agency. It said the government should "strongly consider" splitting its functions between a companies regulator and a separate financial ...

Greece taps BlackRock FMA to build sovereign wealth fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... funds active in Greece, and credit institutions. As part of the launch, the government will consolidate its privatisation agency (HRADF) and bank bailout fund (HFSF) with the existing Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations (HCAP), which was ...

Industry Super Australia names new chair

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
... several firms including Industry Funds Management, Zurich Australia, and AXA Australia. In 1999, he joined a direct marketing agency - trademarkDM - as director of strategy, working on major campaigns for financial services brands. These include AXA ...

Annual MAX Awards celebrates best in industry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... of the Year - industry, and its head of distribution Michael Watson winning Executive of the Year - Distribution. In the agency categories, Insignia Financial and Ptarmigan Media won Agency Campaign of the Year and Fundamental Media was named Agency ...

VFMC hires client portfolio design head

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
... this week. Julie O'Neill joined VFMC on May 27, hailing from the Insurance Commission of Western Australia, a government agency that provides injury insurance to motorists as well as self-insurance to the government. There, O'Neill was the chief investment ...

Budget 2024: Government heeds industry calls to better support women

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... capture study, volunteering or travel time and will only apply to employment. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 2.65 million Australians are carers and are more likely to be women; 12.3% of all females are providing care and 71.8% of ...

Wealth firms 'still have PTSD from the Royal Commission': Deloitte

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
To better understand global investor expectations and practices, Deloitte, in partnership with a global marketing agency, developed a report from a survey of 2000 investors and 250 wealth management providers. The report provided several calls to action ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... Harvard before joining the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he worked as a code breaker for the National Security Agency. He was dismissed for publicly opposing the Vietnam War but soon became head of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University ...