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Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... to manipulate critical financial decisions. In light of the study, the University of Sydney Business School's professor Susan Thorp has called for a tightening of regulations to protect 'vulnerable' clients. The major university study was conducted by ...

ESSSuper appoints new CFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... committees. He was also an employer representative on the UniSuper consultative committee. In June, ESSSuper also appointed Susan Pelka as a government-nominated board member. She is an experienced non-executive board director and business adviser with ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Bank and the central banks of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Managing director of QIC's Global Liquid Strategies (GLS), Susan Buckley, said around 30% of the world's government bonds and an increasing amount of corporate bonds trade with negative yields. ...

New study looks for retirement insights

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... 55 years of age experience retirement and how that experience differs to men. Conducted by Swinburne emeritus professor Susan Moore and University of Melbourne emeritus professor Doreen Rosenthal, the research is looking to identify how women over 55 ...

Lazard chief steps down after 15 years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... Lazard Asset Management's Australian chief executive and managing director has stepped down after 15 years at the company. Susan Roberts joined Lazard in 2001 as head of sales and relationship management, a role she held for five years. After that she ...

More numerate less likely to open SMSF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... 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; members' attitudes, motivations ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
JANA senior consultant Susan Orr recently told the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) that there is plenty of dry powder among investment managers looking to invest in infrastructure. Yet one of the pitfalls in this environment is the impact ...

Lazard global equity fund receives first rating

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... only investing in companies that have historically shown higher earnings certainty. Lazard Asset Management chief executive Susan Roberts said the fund is intended for Australian investors who wish to allocate to global equities but do so through what ...

Lazard funds rated by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... dividends, or by investing in cash, or a combination of the two, depending on where Lazard believes the best opportunities exist. Susan Roberts, chief executive of Lazard Asset Management Pacific Co said: "The feedback that we are receiving from financial ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... rates from zero, for the first time after the global financial crisis," QIC managing director of global liquid strategies Susan Buckley says. To Buckley, this means that investors' new mantra in this environment must be "extra cautiousness." Managing ...