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Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... market concentration has actually intensified. Senator Warren, who prior to running for office was a Harvard Law School professor specialising in bankruptcy law, has recently taken aim at the Securities Exchanges Commission (SEC), arguing that under ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... traditional market cap weighted methodology. Everything else about the term smart beta seems problematic. Stanford University professor Bill Sharpe, who won a Nobel Prize for defining the concepts of beta and alpha, famously said that the notion of smart ...

Griffith, FPA launch academic advice journal

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... that can be used to inform debate and policy, and ultimately raise standards across the industry," Griffith associate professor and discipline head of finance and financial planning, Mark Brimble said. "This journal is part of our overall strategy to ...

Australians retiring young despite rising life expectancy

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... particular, how healthy we will be in the later years of our working life and what our financial position will be." NATSEM's Professor Laurie Brown added: "Currently, the majority of Australians leave the workforce before the age of 65. "With the possibility ...

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... important than its impact on computations like cost of capital estimates." In a second research paper, Macquarie University professor Geoff Kingston argued that macroeconomic modelling undertaken by Treasury in its Tax Review "ignores the impacts on ...

Lawyer slams NAB compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... solicitor Sasha Ivantsoff spoke to Financial Standard shortly after NAB announced the appointment of NSW University Law professor Dimity Kingsford Smith as consumer advocate for clients claiming compensation. "Our initial reaction is that the program ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... upgraded the compensation program for victims of bad advice with the appointment of a consumer advocate. University of NSW professor of Law Dimity Kingsford Smith will act as a consumer advocate within NAB Wealth's advice complaints process. She "will ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... pension reforms are expected to save $2.4 billion in the budget's forward estimates, Morrison said. UTS Business School Professor David Michayluk alerted that the changes might create a disincentive to save among younger Australians. In a joint study ...

Cbus faces serious industry problems with super payments

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... following issues raised in the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) concerning a breach of privacy provisions by Cbus staff. Professor Graeme Samuel and Robert Van Woerkom conducted the review and made six key findings, including the release of personal ...

Register for the MAX Forum now

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... time to register your place at the event. On Thursday 4 June, leading industry figures including CIFR chief executive Professor David Gallagher, Mercer consumer marketing leader Cambell Holt, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia and Sunsuper ...