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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... Q1 - the most since Q4 2010 - from 2.1% in Q4 2011. And there may be more where that came from. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final index of consumer confidence rose to 76.4 in April - the highest in a year -- from 76.2 last month. Even ...

FPA launches consultation on financial planning education

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... of the Academic and Professional community, to review the existing programs on offer and research the needs of the University community. "Until now there has been no consistent model of a financial planning curriculum and no consistent approach to accreditation," ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... Bernanke has BFFs of his own backing him up on this. In her very long speech before the Money Marketeers of New York University in New York, New York on "The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen told her audience ...

Former minister joins Cbus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... Education and Training, Dawkins was responsible for reforming the higher education sector including the re-introduction of university fees in the form of HECS. As Treasurer in the Keating government, Dawkins became known for bringing down a tough budget ...

Govt names Foreign Investment Review chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... management and investment management sectors. In addition to his role as FIRB chair, Wilson is deputy chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney, non executive director of Bell Financial Group and a member of the Payments System Board of the ...

Goldman Sachs defends reputation after scathing NY Times op-ed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... making money," he continued. Smith, who started out at Goldman Sachs on a summer internship while studying at Stanford University and spent 10 years in the New York office before moving to London, pointed the finger directly at chief executive Lloyd ...

Genetics not education drives investor behaviour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... economics at the Claremont McKenna College, and Stephen Siegel, visiting assistant professor of finance at Arizona State University, just published in the Social Science Research Network and reported by The Economist news magazine. "We find that a long ...

Outgoing QIC chief appointed to Suncorp board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... Treasurer and Under Secretary of the Queensland Treasury, and was professor of economics and associate dean at Bond University. "I am delighted to appoint two directors of the quality of Dr Doug McTaggart and Mr Michael Cameron. Each has several decades ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... was clocked at 8.3% as at January - with 243,000 jobs created in that month alone. Must be why the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment reached one year highs to a better-than-expected 75.3 in February. Must be why ...

Confusion over APRA risk disclosure guidance

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... disclosure statements seems to elicit more consumer mistakes than other presentation methods, according to research from the University of Technology Sydney. Speaking at an Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) seminar in Sydney yesterday ...