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Super funds commit 6pc to private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... private equity investment from 4.5 per cent to 6 per cent of total assets over a three year period, according to a University of New South Wales (UNSW) survey. Conducted by UNSW associate professor John Evans and sponsored by private equity fund manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... morning, and Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens delivers the Sir Leslie Melville lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra on the subject of the RBA as lender of last resort. Also this morning, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... dragged down shares of a wide range of multinational companies, including IBM and United Technologies. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell sharply in April to its lowest level since 1982 ...

Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... measures because we can and so Australian Unity and the report's author, Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University, hope their Wellbeing Index will fill the gap. Despite overall happiness being quite stable, according to the survey satisfaction ...

Deutsche recruits Khamphet as VP

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... experience in accounting, marketing and product development roles. She holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and a Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Have DNA, will buy insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... reveal that they were prone to develop certain illnesses. New research by the Health Policy Institute of Georgetown University reveal that disclosing or sharing vital patient-identifiable data in the US carries significant risk for the patient. In the ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... funds using indexing techniques developed by London Business School academics Bill Fung and Narayan Naik, and Duke University academic David Hsieh. State Street Global Advisors tailored the product for USS and it will be managed on a separate basis by ...

Governance before crisis

... corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday, University of Sydney academic Mike Rafferty said governance issues tended to emerge when a crisis or scandal has erupted, further stressing ...

Uni to offer SMSF degree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... develop postgraduate and certificate programs in potentially half a dozen universities around Australia. "Adelaide University has developed an SMSF certificate and masters program but we're also talking to four or five universities to develop courses ...

Enron Part Two

... frauds of Enron scale to happen again, in the wake of the sub-prime led market crisis. Professor Ira Solomon, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has argued that a massive overhaul of auditing practices is needed to prevent a recurrence ...