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The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... making switch decisions to determine who is more or less likely to make 'good' and 'bad' decisions," Griffith University professor of finance Mark Brimble said. "What we found was the ease with which members are able to switch through online channels ...

Pella Funds Management adds to advisory board

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... her," Glass said. Alliston's appointment brings Pella's advisory board to three accomplished professionals and includes Professor Greg Kaplan and Dr Ian Woods. Kaplan is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, co-director of the e61 Institute ...

Fintech professor nabs unique award

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
An academic paper on fintech from an Australian professor has become one of the most widely read papers in the world. Scientia Professor Ross Buckley from University of New South Wales Law & Justice has claimed the title of most-read legal author in ...

Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... expectations for management of such risks and improving the quality of disclosures. University of Sydney Business School professor Christopher Wright agreed and said it is up to businesses to take action with new skills and frameworks. "As the world ...

ABPs alone won't meet retirement income covenant: Knox

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... cohorts to design products that offer the maximum possible retirement income. Australian National University associate professor Geoff Warren said figuring the number of cohorts will be a challenge for super funds. "I don't think it's going to ...

Older Australians overlooking age care costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... about the subject, while only 14% had prepared for the costs. National Seniors chief executive and director of research professor John McCallum said the figures are alarmingly low. "It is critical that aged care costs are built into later life financial ...

Maths an unpopular subject with high schoolers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... professions. The paper builds on earlier work from Flinders, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and Stanford's professor Keith Devlin. Actuaries Institute said it will develop a policy position statement and press federal and state governments ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... the University of Hong Kong and the Australian National University (where he earned his doctorate). He was a visiting professor in the MBA program of the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of NSW. A staunch protector of the environment ...

Fostering the ageing workforce

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... Australia must do more to dismantle the barriers related to health, care, training, discrimination and work conditions. Professor Marian Baird and her colleagues investigated strategies to support older workers and concluded that organisations need a ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Did trading desks perform better or worse when they were forced to work from home last year? That is the question UNSW Business school researchers sought to answer. A study by UNSW Business School associate professors Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James ...