Stay updated with breaking news from Robert baillie. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
MLC Life rolls out senior finance appointments 1 minute read 19 April 2021 MLC Life has appointed the former CFO of AMP Bank as its new deputy CFO as it sees a period of “significant change” for the industry ahead. Lesley Mamelok will take on the new role of general manager, finance and deputy CFO. Robert Baillie will step into the new role of general manager for capital management and corporate finance. Both will report directly to CFO Kent Griffin. “I’m delighted to welcome Lesley and Robert to our team. They are talented individuals and have a wealth of experience in the life insurance industry, which will be invaluable in supporting our strategic direction,” Mr Griffin said. ....
Christmas under the Puritans Both the religious and the secular celebration of Christmas was forbidden by the English Puritan republic, but by no means everywhere with success. There has been no stranger episode in the long history of the English Christmas than the attempt to suppress both the religious and the secular celebrations during the period between 1644 and 1659. Why was it made, and how far did it succeed? John Knox was alone among the great Reformers in condemning all Church festivals and, at any rate until the Civil Wars, few English Puritans seem to have wished to do away with Christmas as such. To others than their sympathizers it must sometimes have been a distinction without much of a difference. The Puritans objected to the Popish associations of Christmas and to the excesses such as play-acting, gambling and dancing with which as the great national holiday it was associated more than any other season. But neither of the chief Puritan critics o ....