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Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... finance industry, but also everyday investors. I have also had the fortune to work with a great team of journalists and researchers who cover the space with enthusiasm and a can-do attitude. From next year deputy editor Mark Smith will be helming Financial ...

Foundation raises over $1m for biomedical research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... allocated to each of the 13 recipients of the Ramaciotti Establishment Grants. The grants are awarded to emerging researchers in universities, public hospitals or institutes who are undertaking biomedical research and provide recognition and support ...

MySuper spurred innovation and chased down fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... "a silly complaint" arguing that the money needed to be spent on technology upgrades anyway. Fellow superannuation researchers Adam Gee from SuperRatings and Ian Fryer from Chant West were more cautious in their appraisal of the new products saying it ...

Former BlackRock exec joins Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... is well positioned to provide long-term wholesale solutions and to deepen relationships with financial advisers and researchers in the market," Dennis said. "Low volatility and emerging markets strategies have become two of the most discussed equity ...

GARS added to BT Wrap platform

HARRY PAGE, MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... not reliant on a small number of individuals. Newham stresses the fund's team approach and says the firm encourages researchers and analysts to meet with all members of the investment team. The fund has a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec and Newham expects ...

Investors find opportunity in SMSF conservative approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... lower payout ratios, with the expectation of selling them to less risk tolerant investors like Selfies in the future," researchers said. Quoting Australian Taxation Office (ATO) research from March 2014, Credit Suisse concluded that SMSFs currently own ...

AMP on hunt for new senior researchers after departure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
AMP Financial Services has reshuffled its AMP Advice Research team and is on the hunt for two execs after a key staff departure. Manager of fund research in the AMP Advice Research team Jeff Poe has departed to become a partner at Platinum Accounting. ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... on our strengths. One of our greatest strengths as a nation is our capacity to innovate and invent. And our medical researchers have led the way, from Howard Florey to Sir Gustav Nossal and from Fiona Stanley to Ian Frazer. Australians have, through ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... increasingly challenge human labour in a wide range of cognitive tasks," the "Future of employment" paper stated. Researchers note that up until now, robots had been able to replace humans only on manual tasks. But the use of big data, algorithms and ...

Less than 15% meet ASFA standard of retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... retirement incomes, even if all sources of savings -and not just superannuation and the age pension- are included. Researchers found that only 53% of couples and 22% of singles surveyed by the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) ...