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ETF issuer hires Olympian

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... who joins after three years in data, operations and product roles at Morningstar Australasia. Earlier this month, University of Sydney graduate Nicola Culey joined ETFS to work across both sales and research teams. Last month, ETFS moved its London office ...

FPA honours top advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... John Dacker from Shadforth Financial Group. As for the FPA University Student of the Year, Mary Hadgis from the University of South Australia won in recognition of academic excellence and commitment to becoming a future leader within financial planning. ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... continue to lift and shorter duration assets will perform better. Not as passive Talis Putnins, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, says he sees no evidence of ETFs eroding market efficiency. A paper he ...

Zurich partners for future of work and insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... an increasingly fragmented labour market. Working with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Zurich has launched the Agile Protection program. An initial report compiled as part of the program shows that current ...

ANZ launches underwriting engine to market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... slash the number of questions but to ask the right questions. Three years in the making, the collaboration with University of Technology Sydney's (UTS) Advanced Analytics Institute has found meaningful correlation between medical history and demographics ...

Macquarie reshuffles asset management lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Petroleum, and Woodside Petroleum. Broadbent is currently chair of Swiss Re Life and Health Australia; chancellor of University of Wollongong; and a director at Woolworths, Sydney Dance Company and National Portrait Gallery of Australia. She worked as ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... that is generating a virtuous cycle of optimism, even greater spending, jobs and growth. Speaking of optimism, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index remains at its strongest level since the year 2000 despite its recent slip from 99 in September ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... services. Speaking at SIBOS this week, Rachel Cooper, professor in Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said that contrary to the experiences of Baby Boomers and Gen X, today's younger employees are better ...

Nikko appoints AIST director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... and a former director of Trowbridge Consulting. Edwards holds a first class honours degree in mathematics from the University of Canterbury. She is also a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institutes of Actuaries and a fellow of the Institute ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... of enforceable undertakings deter future misconduct. This is according to a joint study conducted by ASIC and the University of NSW, which shows financial services firms prefer EUs over harsher sanctions such as civil penalties. Moreover, EUs are favoured ...