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Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... your next pub trivia night could soon be a reality if it is not already happening, according to experts in behavioural science. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference, Standard Life head of pension strategy ...

Super fund chief in Paris for climate talks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... respective economies. "When you look at climate change [as an investor] it's a long-term issue. I don't get involved with the science, I understand the science, but I look at it from the long-term sustainability of our investments," Pegan said. "If governments ...

APRA debates whether "to model or not to model"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Internal risk models for financial institutions are still useful so long as industry isn't "seduced by the science," according to APRA chair Wayne Byres. Speaking at the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Global Risk Forum in Hong Kong ...

AFA Adviser, Practice of the Year named

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... retirement. Reed has invested considerably in researching behavioral outcomes for retirees and this brings a mix of art and science into his advice recommendations and the ongoing, highly valued relationships he maintains with his clients. Kearney Group ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... western New South Wales, it made sense after growing up on his parents' cotton farm for Sowerby to study Agricultural Science. But he changed direction soon after, completing a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment and then a Masters in Business ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Professor Marilyn Anderson of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University. The award will support the professors to establish the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Facility (CVRF) for ...

Equity Trustees appoints new CFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... ANZ Bank in the areas of corporate banking, international trade finance and investor relations. Gentry has a Bachelor of Science, an MBA and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. "I take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank our outgoing ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... sector in the economy is doing it for one sector's spending is another sector's income. This is what we call in the dismal science as the "Paradox of Thrift". The government must "crowd in" private investment in consumption. The cycle goes this way ...

Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... run only to profit members - where do the banks' profits go?," the employer says in one advertisement. "It's not rocket science. Of course I knew banks run their super funds to generate profits, which are used to pay dividends to shareholders. "I made ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
An obsession with stability is moving investors away from all kinds of opportunities; from healthcare and IT mega caps to tobacco, fracking or coal, according to Ariel Investments chief investment officer of international and global equities Rupal J. ...