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Cities over countries for TH Real Estate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
Understanding local, long-term structural trends is key to preserving investment value and unlocking performance growth in cities throughout the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, according to TH Real Estate. The firm's head of global research Alice Breheny ...

Blue Sky reshuffles directors

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... venture capital funds and deployed over $80 million across both. She was also the chief executive of Reproductive Health Science, deputy managing director at Adelaide Research and Innovation, an investment manager at CM Capital Investments and managing ...

Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... management consultant for Bain & Company. Portfolio manager Wiemin Xie, meanwhile, is a quant specialist with a computer science degree. Fellow portfolio manager Tim Masters has a background in debt having worked in Westpac's institutional bank. Rounding ...

Machine learning to revolutionise investing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... growth in computing power, the explosion of data generation, and the maturing of methodologies from statistics, computer science, mathematics and engineering, amongst other disciplines," Ledford said. "As more data become available, sophisticated machine ...

Brown to leave after AFA board re-election

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... Tide managing director Chris Browne as VIC state director. Plansure Solutions' Dave Slovinec and principal of Economic Science James Ford both retained their state directorships unopposed, for SA/NT and WA respectively, while Evalesco's Jeff Thurecht ...

Businesses face unprecedented cyber threats: CIA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... must be prepared for the unprecedented number of attacks to cyber security, according to deputy director, directorate of science and technology at the US Central Intelligence Agency, Dawn Meyerriecks. Speaking at the SINET61 Summit in Sydney, Meyerriecks ...

Sowerby to support Queensland startup drive in new role

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... chief entrepreneur on a 12 month contract to build the state's reputation as a startup hotspot. Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy, Leeanne Enoch, said Sowerby will cement Queensland's reputation as a global innovation hotspot ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A new international research network is aiming to promote and advance high-quality social science studies on pensions, ageing and retirement. The network, which includes Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... than in the previous history of the human race, Douglass singled out artificial intelligence as a breakthrough field of science to watch. Opportunities, he continued, would arise from technologies such as augmented reality, intelligent virtual assistants ...

Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... average was 76%. State Street Asia-Pacific head of asset owner sector solutions, Beng-Eu Lim, said: "Advances in medical science combined with changing lifestyles in the region are driving up life expectancy and making it more difficult for pension funds ...