The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper

READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 221 - 230 of 485 results for "Professor"

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN | MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015

... these more active options, and that's going to continue." Also speaking to the media, Create Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan warned that "there is the idea that index funds are cheap and less risky. But they are not less risky. You don't ...

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015

... clarity on some of the tax issues that are currently impediments before transferring people straight across to a product." Professor of Finance at Monash University, Deborah Ralston, said super funds will need more than one CIPR to cater for a range ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015

... at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan spoke broadly about pension fund business models and said he was surprised by the ambitions of some Australian funds. ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015

... in the pension assets test, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has said. CEDA chief executive Professor Stephen Martin said that the measure would help alleviate poverty in retirement. Speaking ahead of the release of a new report ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015

... and Investments Commission (ASIC). "If we can reduce the costs of adultery, why can't we reduce the cost of banking?", Professor Henry Ergas, from Monash University, said during the presentation of the research report 'Competition in financial services'. ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015

... institutional investors had pulled a net $8.2 billion (US$6.8 billion) from hedge funds since the beginning of 2015. Professor Stephen Brown from the New York University Stern School of Business has been studying hedge funds for close to four decades ...

Capital raising not total solution: CIFR

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015

... resolution regimes that offer a credible prospect of "bailing-in" creditors in the event of stress. Co-author of the study, Professor Fariborz Moshirian, said there is continued debate on whether large banks should be bailed in or bailed out in times ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015

... to do that, advisers need to know their preferences. To that end, the company has enlisted the help of Shachar Kariv, professor of economics and department chair at the University of California, Berkley. He has developed a game that asks players to make ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER | WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015

... appropriately with members in order to better understand what they want." Co-author of the study, University of Sydney Professor Susan Thorp, said the research provides insights into the wants and needs of super fund members, and how they square with ...

ACFS director steps down

DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015

After six years as an executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Professor Deborah Ralston is stepping down from her role. In overseeing the continuing development of the centre, Ralston initiated projects such as the ...

PAGE:

Super funds race to implement digital advice

VINNY VUCAGO

Australian superannuation funds are increasingly turning to digital advice tools to bridge the longstanding gap between members needs and access to affordable financial guidance, according to executives at wealth technology Bravura Solutions.

Musk's $106bn fundamental-defying IPO lands on Nasdaq

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

SpaceX has raised US$75 billion ($106.8bn) in the biggest-ever stock market debut, valuing Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company at US$1.77 trillion.

Quinbrook appoints Australian lead

VINNY VUCAGO

Energy transition infrastructure investor Quinbrook has appointed Tim Horneman as region leader for Australia, formalising his responsibility for the firm's local investment activities and business operations.

Former ASFA COO joins housing fund manager

MATTHEW WAI

The former chief operating officer of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has joined C1 Capital Group as chief investment and operating officer.

Videos

Brought to you by

A guaranteed future

Global economic outlook and the case for local currency emerging market debt: Resilience, risk, and opportunity

The market has changed. The opportunity hasn't.

Strength amid noise

SMILE through retirement - tackling the top 5 (Sequencing, Market, Inflation, Longevity, Emotion) retirements risks

Follow the leaders

Maintaining a fundamental focus in a world obsessed with the short term

MORE VIDEOS

Products

'Guide To' Series

Pocket investment guides featuring adviser case studies and a glossary.

MORE INFO

Publisher's Forum

Investing trends and strategies from the industry’s thought leaders.

MORE INFO

Product Showcases

Putting the spotlight on investment products that matter.

MORE INFO

Expert Feed

Christian Mueller-Glissmann

Head of Asset Allocation Research

Goldman Sachs

When geopolitics becomes a portfolio risk

Geopolitics is back - again - and Australian investors can no longer treat it as distant background noise.

READ MORE

Tania Milnes

General Manager Membership

Financial Advice Association Australia

Does association membership still matter?

With all the changes the advice sector has experienced in recent years, such as regulatory reform and increased education and professional standards ...

READ MORE

Effie Dimitropoulos

Chief executive

AUDD

Digital assets and where they stand in 2026

So far in 2026 digital assets have captured the headlines largely for the wrong reasons, but that doesn't tell the full story.

READ MORE

Jessica Sclafani

Global retirement strategist

T. Rowe Price

Rethinking default design in a changing market environment

The evolution underway in the US DC system highlights the value of periodically reassessing default design assumptions.

READ MORE

Industry Events

MORE INDUSTRY EVENTS

JUL

Advisers Big Day Out - Hobart

Featured Profile

MORE PROFILES

Brian Redican

CHIEF ECONOMIST
NEW SOUTH WALES TREASURY CORPORATION

What makes an economist an economist? TCorp chief economist Brian Redican reflects on over three decades of navigating Australia's economic cycles. Riddhima Talwani writes.

READ MORE