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Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... money manager last night saying, 'stocks are cheap and the sun will rise again.' Bloomberg also quoted renowned Yale University professor Robert Shiller's data showing that the S&P 500 index is at its cheapest level since 1986. I don't think there is ...

Cuscal hires customers GM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... departments of Premier and Cabinet and in human services portfolios. He has an honours degree in law from Queensland University of Technology and an MBA from the University of Melbourne. Lovney's focus in leading Cuscal's Customers' division is to understand ...

QSuper appoints investment committee

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... overseeing QSuper's investment strategy. Drew is currently a professor of finance at the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. "We are going to become a regulated super fund. The Trustees wanted to put more emphasis on investment outcomes and ...

Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... governments should provide scholarships and other forms of assistance to ensure that poor students who deserve to can attend university."

State Super appoints chief executive

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... of the group of closed NSW public sector superannuation schemes. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Melbourne University, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA) and a Master ...

Kaplan appoints CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... latter as ANZ's Thailand country head. Shilbury joined ANZ in 1986 and holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia. Shilbury starts his position on 2 February 2009.

Zurich expands investment team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... manager and a research manager. Elliot Bullock was hired as an investment analyst after recently graduating from the University of Technology Sydney. Brett Penprase has been appointed to the newly created role of investment specialist research manager ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... the US tonight. These include core retail sales, the producer purchase price index, retail sales and the preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading. "There's a fair bit of nervousness ahead of those," Mr Potter said. Resources stocks ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing Asian hedge funds. Allison Hill, Frontier Investment Consulting senior consultant, said the Lee's expertise in hedge ...