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ACFS director steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
After six years as an executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Professor Deborah Ralston is stepping down from her role. In overseeing the continuing development of the centre, Ralston initiated projects such as the ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... significant number of vulnerable older Australians to access their own super savings." Research conducted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and AIST in 2014 found that up to 40% of older Australians currently do not get to choose when they ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... one-third of Australia's financial relationships. This is one of the findings in a Finsia-sponsored report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which also says Australia's exports of financial services are larger than the value of tourism ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... attractive to private investors. That was one of the conclusions at a recent roundtable discussion hosted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) and attended by 15 finance experts including academics, economists, credit analysts and senior ...

Laminar fund wins award for innovation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... available and at the same time providing small companies with funding, difficult to access from other sources." Australian Centre for Financial Studies executive director Professor Ralston said: "It is hard to overstate the impact of technology across ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) has appointed two senior executives from the financial services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior ...

Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... senior university lecturer. Dr Pelma Rajapakse of Griffith University was commissioned to write a report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies. In it she investigates some of the largest cases of fraud committed by fund managers across four ...

Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... "Riding the digital wave: are wealth platforms about to take off or wipe out?" seminar that was arranged by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, Jeroen Buwalda, Partner at EY, said adding extra investment choices is only part of what constitutes ...

CSIRO to study super spending habits

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Dormer said. Research leader of the CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster and executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, Deborah Ralston, said the Centre was continuing to strengthen its ties with industry. "We've seen ...

Superannuation Research Cluster makes two appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... behaviour in areas of saving, investment and retirement outcomes. Cluster leader and executive director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Deborah Ralston, said that both these people have the enthusiasm and right skills for the job. ...