Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 241 - 250 of 381 results for "Academic"

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... grants. The initial grants are for $5,000 each and are aimed to encourage the development of financial planning as an academic discipline in its own right. Speaking about the grants, chair of the Grant Standing Committee of the FPEC, Sharon Taylor of ...

Robeco fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... and function as each other's back up. Lonsec decribed van Vliet as a "motivated and capable investor" who has written academic papers on low volatility research and investing. Van Ditshuizen has 17 years' investment experience, all with Robeco. Lonsec ...

Westpac trumpets infrastructure's 'annuity style' potential

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Increased investment in infrastructure by superannuation funds would provide retirees with a much-needed "annuity-style" income stream, according to Westpac Group. In a submission to the Productivity Commission's Public Infrastructure Inquiry, the bank ...

Australia's whistleblowing regime far from best-practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... Act, as well as the protection of anonymous disclosures, even if whistleblowers choose not to identify themselves. The academic also asks for "a clear and effective compensations provision" and to extend whistleblower protections to those who take their ...

David Murray to head financial system inquiry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... Government also confirmed Murray will head a Committee of four "eminent Australians" drawn from the finance, business and academic sectors. Among its considerations, the inquiry will be asked to report on how the financial system can more efficiently ...

Industry leaders urge Abbott to keep super rebate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
Super fund trustees and senior industry executives have urged the government to go ahead with the low-income superannuation contribution (LISC) in an open letter to the Prime Minister. Signatories include well-known super fund bosses such as HOSTPLUS's ...

University academics to access advice research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... available. "Our consultation with senior academics from across Australia has made it quite clear that the existence of academic research is essential to underpin quality university education in this discipline," FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said. ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... universities; Deakin, LaTrobe, Canberra, Western Sydney and Wollongong, and will commence at the beginning of the 2014 academic year. The scholarships offered will be for approximately 20 students annually at $15,000 per student. Platinum will also offer ...

ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The $1 billion on-balance sheet Australian National University investment fund has announced it is modifying its investment guidelines to ensure investments it holds in the future will "minimise social injury". However, ANU chancellor and former minister ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... options, risk modeling, social science and behavioural economics." CSIRO research theme leader Alan Dormer said. The academic research program was drawn together for Monash by Professor Deborah Ralston, executive director of the Australian Centre for ...