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Charity donates $10m to university

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... university and also the largest grant given by the Blackmores foundation. Southern Cross University vice chancellor professor Adam Shoemaker said the gift will be used to establish a national center for naturopathic medicine higher education, research ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... significantly less effective than fixed remuneration when it comes to compliance outcomes. Co-author of the report, associate professor Elizabeth Sheedy says the balanced scorecard tested did not lead to any significant uplift in productivity relative ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices cannot be predicted. Investment advisory ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... "Yes, they (targets and bonuses) can drive perverse outcomes." Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre associate professor Elizabeth Sheedy said questions must be asked of the ongoing use of balanced scorecards in the industry. "Based on this study ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... entrants to the industry and existing financial planners seeking to update their qualifications, UTS said. Associate professor and deputy chair of the UTS Business School finance department Marco Navone said the postgraduate degree was developed following ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... interest rates will continue to lift and shorter duration assets will perform better. Not as passive Talis Putnins, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, says he sees no evidence of ETFs eroding market efficiency. ...

ANZ launches underwriting engine to market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... 1000 medical conditions have been simplified and made search-friendly in the engine. UTS Advanced Analytics Institute professor Guandong Xu said: "Using AI to simulate people's decision making process, we have shown how AI has used big data, natural ...

Industry fund appoints former Labor politician

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... HESTA's chair position - as the chair of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board and as an adjunct professor within the College of Law and Justice at Victoria University. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said: "We are delighted ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... the workplace, even in the hypermasculine sector of financial services. Speaking at SIBOS this week, Rachel Cooper, professor in Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said that contrary to the experiences ...

New study taps into investor behavior

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... improve financial decision-making," Rotaru said. The research is collaboration between Rotaru, University of Melbourne's Professor Peter Bossaerts and Dr Nitin Yadav and La Trobe's Professor Petko Kalev.