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FPA partners with Deakin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... Association (FPA) is one step further to improving adviser understanding on life insurance after partnering with Deakin University to develop an industry recognised life risk adviser program. The corporate education division of Deakin University, DeakinPrime ...

Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... still a great divide between how mums-and-dads invest as opposed to their insto counterparts. The findings were from a University of Queensland Business School study conducted since 2005 and surveyed 2,658 retail funds and 1,494 instos in the US with ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

... Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the peak body for hedge funds, and conducted by the University of NSW Business School. According to the research, major super funds expect to increase their average allocations to hedge ...

Falkiner heads to Double Bay

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... accountant, who will provide day to day analytical support to the firm. He holds a Master of Accounting from Macquarie University, is CPA qualified and holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Aviation from the University of China. But the buck will not ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... to conquer it. These advocates include a former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz and now Columbia University professor, who told ABC Radio that "countries that follow inflation targets are more likely to get themselves into trouble". ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... average weekly earnings data for February. Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens addresses the annual dinner of Sydney University Faculty of Economics and Business on "The Australian Economy: Then and Now". The Reserve Bank also releases its monthly bulletin ...

Ex-UBS director joins Integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Aspen Group. Prior to that, he headed similar positions at AXA and ING. Shaw has a Bachelor of Arts from Manchester University and a Diploma in Financial Services. Integrity Investment Management is a specialist Australian shares manager. The firm was ...

Back to school on finance

... and former Chase Manhattan Bank chief executive David Rockefeller, who has pledged more than $100 million to Harvard University's endowment fund, the largest donation from a past student in the university's history. Michelle Baltazar

ANU down $100 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
The global sharemarket correction has cost the Australian National University (ANU) $100 million. The ANU vice-chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, said their portfolio is down about 8 per cent, but he added that they didn't need the money right now and ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... productivity. A review just released by the Australian Mathematics Teachers Association (AAMT) in conjunction with the University of New England (UNE) in NSW called Maths Why Not? has found that interest in mathematics is falling. It's washing through ...