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Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... into the defence sector as they recalibrate ethical considerations and chase increased financial incentives. Associate professor and researcher Harminder Singh said there was a time when the investment community tried to avoid stocks in defence companies ...

Vale Lang Walker

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
... company that works to prevent surgical and wound infections. Western Sydney University vice-chancellor and president professor Barney Glover said Walker was an outstanding Australian who made a generational difference in helping shape Western Sydney. ...

Startup success hinges on founder personality: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... chances of success," Oxford Internet Institute departmental research lecturer Fabian Braesemann said. UNSW Sydney adjunct professor and lead author of the study Paul X. McCarthy found notable evidence of how this plays out in venture capital. "The adventurousness ...

Super tax change to impact SMSF members: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
... the proposed tax change on the SMSF sector. Commenting on the release of the research study, University of Adelaide Professor Ralf Zurbruegg said the liquidity stress has been exacerbated by the inclusion of unrealised capital gains in the measurement ...

La Trobe University appoints lead for $200m campaign

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2023
... not-for-profit organisations across the arts, health and medical research, and higher education sectors. La Trobe vice-chancellor professor Dewar said Powell's appointment comes during a significant phase of the university's ambitious Make the Difference ...

Anti-hawking laws could dampen super fund advice: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... financial advice amid the federal government's proposal to open advice to other channels. Anthony Asher, an associate professor at UNSW Business School, said it would be "overkill to apply it [anti-hawking legislation] to a superannuation fund of ...

Greg Combet steps down as IFM Investors, ISA chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... the other members of the advisory board to be chaired by Combet. The members appointed to the Advisory board include professor emeritus Ross Garnaut, Powerlink Queensland chief executive Paul Simshauser, Australian Energy Regulator chief executive Anthea ...

US debt ceiling agreement reached

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... Senate. "I strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement," he concluded. UNSW Business School of Economics associate professor Mark Humphrey-Jenner told Financial Standard the decision is a step in the right direction. "One of the benefits of the ...

Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... Jens Peers, independent director and advisory board member Fiona Reynolds, RIAA executive manager Estelle Parker, and professor of political science and associate dean international at the University of Melbourne professor Timothy Lynch discussed the ...

Packer donates $7m to mental health research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... of people battling mental health issues both in Australia and around the world." UNSW president, vice-chancellor and professor Attila Brungs said the gift will support collaborative research and drive meaningful change in an increasingly vital field ...
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