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Common sense rules in portfolio construction

... verified. Steve Christie, head of private wealth services at Ord Minnett, did the research as part of his PhD at Macquarie University. Among other things, he tested the industry's yard stick Sharpe Ratio, used by fund managers to demonstrate their 'superior' ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

... Millhouse, the founding general manager of UniQuest, one of the country's key exporters of new technologies spun out of the University of Queensland. David Millhouse said that the new retail fund, the MillhouseIAG Private Equity fund, is unique in that ...

APRA appoints head of numbers team

... largest repository of its kind in the country. Davies holds an honours degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University as well as a PhD in Statistical Science from the Australian National University.

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... in the next two to five years, an increase from the current average allocation of 2.9 per cent to 4.1 per cent. The University of NSW's Faculty of Commerce and Economics did a study in January 2006 to measure the current level of hedge fund investing ...

Tyndall strengthens analyst team

... where he reviewed individually managed accounts, set up compliance models and performed equities research. Both are University of Sydney graduates with Chan holding a masters of commerce in finance and economics and Whight holding a bachelor of commerce ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

... web services," the bank said. CBA noted that Harte is "also working with the Centre for Information Systems at MIT [university] on open systems and competitive advantage." The reference to "open systems" may be the main clue, as CBA's technology is the ...

New survey debunks age-old investor behaviour views

... will potentially drive the popularity of gender-specific or lifecycle type managed funds. BT Financial Group and The University of Western Australia (UWA) has conducted what is arguably the most comprehensive survey on investor behaviour towards managed ...

Senior Legg Mason staff exit after bonuses dealt out

... capacities and transferred to asset management in 1990. He has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law from Monash University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Meanwhile, Stuart Cartledge was a portfolio manager within the equity and balanced ...

NZ godfather joins B&B board

... people development processes locally and globally. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dortkamp is the chief executive of Rivergum Investors, which is an independent consultancy business ...

Daily Economic Update

... rally in overnight trade supported by indications that consumer spending would remain buoyant. The final reading of the University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment increased to 81.6 during the month from 74.2 in October. The reading compares with ...