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New chair at Local Government Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... Government Super's new board chair is Kyle Loades who has worked with NRMA, Credit Union Australia. Loades is currently a professor at the University of Newcastle. In another addition to the board, Sandi Orleow is joining it as an independent director ...

Allianz Retire+ to research retirement transition

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... research project to better understand the impact of holistic advice on retiree happiness. Macquarie University associate professor Joanne Earl will lead the project, and will work with Australian retirees and financial advisers to measure happiness in ...

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... particularly under the sway of institutional investors are found to be smaller, newer, and more financially constrained, Monash professor of finance Chris Veld said. "A sizeable number of investors argue that the magnitude of their shareholdings in the ...

How key is gender in retirement outcomes?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... retirement was met with silence and then laughter at the recent Actuaries Institute Summit in Sydney. UNSW associate professor Anthony Asher, Mercer senior actuary David Knox and Rice Warner founder Michael Rice took to the stage towards the end of the ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... 45 to 55 age group the mortgage debt-to-income ratio went from 82% to 169%. The research was co-authored by economics professor Rachel Ong from Curtin University and professor of housing and housing studies Gavin Wood from RMIT. Wood explained that the ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... empirical aspects of reverse mortgage demand and product design, under senior research fellow Dr Katja Hanewald and Professor Hazel Bateman. "While economic theory predicts that households would demand reverse mortgages to improve retirement funding ...

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 ...