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Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... advisers to manipulate critical financial decisions. In light of the study, the University of Sydney Business School's professor Susan Thorp has called for a tightening of regulations to protect 'vulnerable' clients. The major university study was conducted ...

Retiree expenditure remains modest: study

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... relatively modest expenditure and - on average - have the highest financial satisfaction." ACFS executive director, Professor Rodney Maddock, said the report's findings provided important evidence in the discussion about superannuation and retirement ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A New York University professor believes at the very least the ASX should use blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack ...

Terms of reference released for complaints system review

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... financial system's external dispute resolution and complaints framework. The independent expert panel consisting of Professor Ian Ramsay (chair), Julie Abramson and Alan Kirkland and will examine the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Superannuation ...

ACFS head departs to Vic government

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... maintaining her association with the centre and Monash University in an adjunct capacity. Monash University adjunct professor Rodney Maddock will serve as acting director while a search begins to replace Auster. Maddock, a longtime associate of ACFS ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... and External Support (stable). Private not public debt is Australia's problem Australia's favourite doom forecaster, Professor Steve Keen, is at it again this time warning not just that Australia is headed for recession as early as next year but that ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... take into account the A$8.1 billion half yearly charge for Gulf of Mexico compensation. UK's Warwick Business School professor David Elmes, an expert in the global energy sector, said the result reflects continued challenges for the industry. "Crude ...

Former Sunsuper CIO joins advisory firm

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... AMP Asset Management. He has published widely in both academic and practitioner journals, and is currently an adjunct professor of finance at the Paul Woolley Centre, UTS, Sydney and a director of advisory firm Brookvine. Based in Double Bay in Sydney's ...

ETF pioneer donates $100m to ANU

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... scholarships hold a value of $100,000 per student over five years for a program of undergraduate study. ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said the collegiate-style residences would generate revenue to fund the scholarship program in perpetuity ...

New board members at Sunsuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... part of a cultural and digital transformation at the $35 billion fund. Joining Sunsuper's board are Theresa Moltoni and Professor Mark Harvey. The pair replace outgoing Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ) appointed directors Rob Hutchinson ...