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UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... primary business is the ownership and exploitation of fossil fuels reserves by 2025. UNSW president and vice-chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, said the university's divestment of fossil fuel assets in its investment portfolio supports its net zero emissions ...

Retirement review goes off the rails

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... labelling the case for increasing the superannuation guarantee as "tenuous". University of New South Wales associate professor Anthony Asher says some submissions are missing the point of the review entirely. "I haven't looked at all of the submissions ...

Former SMSFA chair returns to role

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... issues facing our members," Bowerman said. "I also want to acknowledge the enormous contribution of my predecessor, Professor Ralston, in what was a challenging period for our Association, as well as the full support I received from the staff under the ...

Governance experts join boutique

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... we are pleased to welcome them both to our team." Drew and Walk are founders of Drew, Walk & Co consulting. Drew is a professor of finance at Griffith University and former managing partner of Stonechat Capital. Walk is adjunct professor at the University ...

New chair at Local Government Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... Government Super's new board chair is Kyle Loades who has worked with NRMA, Credit Union Australia. Loades is currently a professor at the University of Newcastle. In another addition to the board, Sandi Orleow is joining it as an independent director ...

Allianz Retire+ to research retirement transition

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... research project to better understand the impact of holistic advice on retiree happiness. Macquarie University associate professor Joanne Earl will lead the project, and will work with Australian retirees and financial advisers to measure happiness in ...

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... particularly under the sway of institutional investors are found to be smaller, newer, and more financially constrained, Monash professor of finance Chris Veld said. "A sizeable number of investors argue that the magnitude of their shareholdings in the ...

How key is gender in retirement outcomes?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... retirement was met with silence and then laughter at the recent Actuaries Institute Summit in Sydney. UNSW associate professor Anthony Asher, Mercer senior actuary David Knox and Rice Warner founder Michael Rice took to the stage towards the end of the ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... 45 to 55 age group the mortgage debt-to-income ratio went from 82% to 169%. The research was co-authored by economics professor Rachel Ong from Curtin University and professor of housing and housing studies Gavin Wood from RMIT. Wood explained that the ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... empirical aspects of reverse mortgage demand and product design, under senior research fellow Dr Katja Hanewald and Professor Hazel Bateman. "While economic theory predicts that households would demand reverse mortgages to improve retirement funding ...