 ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017 ... and Financial Economics said 350 gigawatts is around seven times Australia's entire electricity sector. Meanwhile oil industry analysts such as Wood Mackenzie were quoted in The Economist magazine projecting that electric cars could by 2035 erode as ... Read more SUZANNE HOLDEN | FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017 A former manager in the aviation industry, Link Group's Suzanne Holden says there are more similarities in financial services than one might expect. She tells Darren Snyder how a past career helped transform the super fund administration giant. ... Read more  SALLY LOANE | FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017 ... trade while also holding back innovation to make financial services more efficient and competitive. These drags on our industry and the economy come at great cost to the clients and consumers we serve and are a threat to new jobs and future economic ... Read more  STEPHEN FAY | THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016 ... in superannuation. Where once an individual journeyed through their career with a single employer or within a defined industry, there is now much greater transience. And at each juncture of change the individual has the responsibility to choose the superannuation ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016 The superannuation industry may bemoan perpetual inquiries but that didn't prevent a frenzied reaction to the Productivity Commission's latest issues paper into how the PC may recommend to government a new way of selecting or allocating employees to ... Read more CRAIG RACINE | FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016 ... decumulation is arguably the most transformational change confronting the SMSF sector and the broader superannuation industry over the next decade. The battle for growth will revolve around post-retirement products and services that provide members with ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016 ... complete their courses let alone become suitable future educators. Superannuation and wealth management policy makers and industry leaders who want to rescue their sector's reputation could learn much from the education sector's journey. This is because ... Read more  DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016 Superannuation has become a political football of late and it is harming industry progress. I am certain there are industry representatives who will tell me super has always been a political football, and that it operates more like a returning boomerang. ... Read more DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016 As a participant in the daily media landscape I would be unsettled to find superannuation funds and wider industry bodies that are ill-prepared for crisis management. For an industry in which millions Australians place not only their hard-earned money ... Read more SUPERGUARD 360 | FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016 ... members has made them more vulnerable to the financial scandals that have engulfed sections of the wealth management industry following the global financial crisis. These scandals triggered a wave of parliamentary inquiries that lead to massive policy ... Read more |
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