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Zero tolerance approach to poor culture needed

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... capability review is taking a no-nonsense approach to fixing poor behaviour and getting culture right. Monash Business School professor Graeme Samuel, who appeared at the 2019 Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF) via video link, took a simplistic yet ...

Harder for insurers to dodge claims

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... report said today. "No more special treatment for life insurers" UNSW Business School's commercial law and regulation professor Pamela Hanrahan said the final report's life insurance recommendations were significant. "Since, 2001 the life insurance ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... trillion in new wealth if the world economy transitions to zero carbon and zero waste policies, according to new research. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, who leads Macquarie University's Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... are posing big problems for Australia's retirement system. Latest research from the AIST and UTS corporate governance professor Thomas Clarke shows concessions in the reforms to Australia's superannuation system designed to benefit the for-profit super ...

Charity donates $10m to university

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... university and also the largest grant given by the Blackmores foundation. Southern Cross University vice chancellor professor Adam Shoemaker said the gift will be used to establish a national center for naturopathic medicine higher education, research ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... significantly less effective than fixed remuneration when it comes to compliance outcomes. Co-author of the report, associate professor Elizabeth Sheedy says the balanced scorecard tested did not lead to any significant uplift in productivity relative ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices cannot be predicted. Investment advisory ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... "Yes, they (targets and bonuses) can drive perverse outcomes." Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre associate professor Elizabeth Sheedy said questions must be asked of the ongoing use of balanced scorecards in the industry. "Based on this study ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... entrants to the industry and existing financial planners seeking to update their qualifications, UTS said. Associate professor and deputy chair of the UTS Business School finance department Marco Navone said the postgraduate degree was developed following ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... interest rates will continue to lift and shorter duration assets will perform better. Not as passive Talis Putnins, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, says he sees no evidence of ETFs eroding market efficiency. ...