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Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... volatility and the kind of global uncertainty we're all facing now makes it all the more difficult," he said. "Behavioural science can give us some insights into the kinds of common mistakes that people make and this can help arm advisers with ways ...

Property takes $237m hit

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... pandemic, developed a COVID-19 Property Market Dashboard for Australia. City Analytics Lab director and chair of urban science Professor Chris Petit said the new dashboard would provide key property metrics to everyday Australians. "It is hoped the insights ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
News that a highly anticipated antiviral drug hoped to treat COVID-19 had flopped in human trials saw markets fall overnight. Originally reported by the Financial Times, the publisher said Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir did not reduce the ...

Lonsec recommends PCFM fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... up. It's going to take a while before that makes a difference to the spread of the virus, but it seems like most of the science indicates that given the common child is a coronavirus, these things are less likely to spread in a warmer environment," he ...

Billionaire investor warns against buying the dip

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... a halt was "dramatic", Waislitz said in the letter. "Previously, this would have been considered to be in the realm of science fiction," he said. "We still have no way of predicting the ultimate impact of this virus." He argued that quantitative, programmatic ...

UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Paris Agreement commitment to limit global warming to 1.5C. "UNSW has a proud history of being at the forefront of climate science and renewable energy and there is a clear expectation from our community that we forge a leadership role on climate change," ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... non-sustainable environmental activities - and this will transform our economy," it said. Perhaps the most frightening and science fiction-esque prediction coming out of KPMG and ANU is a rise of genetic manipulation and brain computer interfaces over ...

Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... corporate world in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. The science body noted that Australia's strong regulatory environment is a source of national competitive advantage but can be costly and ...

Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... stronger action to both mitigate emissions and also plan for impacts..." This was Ketan Joshi's - University of Sydney science graduate and international renewable energy researcher and author - response to The Fifth Estate 's assertion that ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... 'but on the other..." - Harry Truman The AFR recently published an opinion piece from Kate Samranvedhya - a Bachelor of Science in Economics graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and currently the deputy chief investment officer ...