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More numerate less likely to open SMSF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... over-rating their skillsets. Presenting at a recent Centre for International Finance and Regulation event, University of Sydney Business School Professor Susan Thorpe said the research was trying to measure the relative reasons for starting an SMSF ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... conducted by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the Tsinghua University Graduate School and the University of Sydney Business School, in collaboration with KPMG revealed that across Asia-Pacific total volume of online alternative finance markets ...

Tribeca creates new investment role

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... quantitative modelling. He has a PhD from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and a Bachelor's degree from University of Sydney in Applied Mathematics, where he won a University Medal," Daily said. Moore joins Tribeca's quantitative team which ...

Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... special thank you for establishing a significant funding base for youth mental health," FGG chairman and University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson said. Among the fund's first investors were the Smith Family, Peter Scanlon's Scanlon Foundation ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... engage appropriately with members in order to better understand what they want." Co-author of the study, University of Sydney Professor Susan Thorp, said the research provides insights into the wants and needs of super fund members, and how they square ...

Wilson to raise $550m for philanthropic LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... investors." FGG board and managers will act pro bono. The LIC will be chaired by Australian business leader and University of Sydney chancellor, Belinda Hutchinson AM. The board will also include Magellan Asset Management general manager of distribution ...

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... and the Australian economy through leading to a less efficient deployment of capital," the paper continued. University of Sydney senior lecturer Andrew Ainsworth, chair of finance discipline Graham Partington and CIFR research director Geoff Warren authored ...

Plato hires senior quant analyst from SSgA

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... Center in Sydney. Whiteoak has a PhD in Astrophysics and a first class honours degree in Science from the University of Sydney. Plato's founder and managing director, Dr Don Hamson said: "A number of our team previously worked with Jonathan at SSgA and ...

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... firms outside Australia. The most represented universities among these globetrotting graduates were UNSW, University of Sydney and Macquarie University while CFA charter designations among these students are more popular than MBAs. Rounding out the top ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Louise Thornwaite and associate professor Sue Wright from Macquarie University, Dr Michael Rafferty from the University of Sydney and Christopher Angus from the McKell Institute - note that while independent trustees in theory should add a layer of superior ...