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Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... statements and the exclusion of general advice from the conflicted remuneration provision. But Monash University associate professor Paul Latimer said that "the financial planning industry should embrace the best interests duty and its catch-all as an ...

Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
UK fund manager Winton Capital has recruited Andrew Grimes from Platinum Asset Management to head up its recently opened Sydney office. Grimes was an institutional investment specialist with the $23 billion global equities manager for more than 5 years. ...

ANZ launches bank-aligned news site

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... articles is ANZ-backed. The website does feature external authors, including Korn Ferry principal Jacqueline Gillespie and Professor Steve Worthington. Former Fairfax journalist Andrew Cornell has been appointed BlueNotes managing editor. Cornell will ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... anti-HFT sentiment stirred up by the release of Michael Lewis's new book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. CMCRC CEO Professor Michael Aitken, who has conducted multiple academic studies on HFT, said that there was no evidence presented in the coverage ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced the two winners of the inaugural Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) university research grants. A team from Griffith University and a consortium of academics from Griffith University, University ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... detailed in the Finsia report 'How safe are safe withdrawal rates in retirement? An Australian perspective' authored by Professor Michael Drew and Dr Adam Walk. Prompting the research is conventional wisdom that retirees should hold a 50:50 growth-defensive ...

Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... does not necessarily affect company performance or shareholder behaviour, research by University of New South Wales professor RenA(C)e Adams has found. Adams, who was speaking at the Platypus Asset Management Symposium in Sydney, looked at the short ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... compulsory superannuation directs too much money away from the banking sector. He said that research by Monash University's Professor Rodney Maddock, commissioned by the FSC, found that superannuation funds re-route large amounts of money to the banking ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... and other institutions have spent an estimated $75bn on financial investments in South America, said Boston University professor Kevin Gallagher. This is, he points out, "more [investment] than the World Bank, US Export Bank and the Inter-American Development ...