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VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... and ensure we are well positioned for future growth," Chesler said. McCormack has a bachelor of commerce from the University of New South Wales, with majors in finance and actuarial studies. He is an associate of US-based Society of Actuaries. Shen has ...

UBS chief investment strategist leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... of Business in Applied Finance from UTS in 1995. Prior to this, he completed an economics degree with honours at University of Sydney. Earlier this month, UBS partnered with New Zealand AI company FaceMe to produce a digital version of Daniel Kalt, the ...

IMF Bentham eyes potential Facebook, Cambridge Analytica goldmine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica obtained user information with the help of University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who created a Facebook quiz app that harvested data from quiz takers. Due to a vulnerability ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... to just 0.6 percentage points from 2.8 pps in the December 2017 quarter. And if the latest indications from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey is any guide, it shall be so...i.e. weak. Consumer sentiment fell to 98.2 in June inched ...

NAB names wealth advocate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... She takes over from academic Dimity Kingsford-Smith, who returned to her full-time role as a law professor at the University of NSW. NAB created the customer advocate role in May 2015 as part of its financial advice remediation initiatives and to improve ...

Advice group strengthens leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... Suncorp, Commonwealth Bank and is a former legal officer, having completed a Bachelor of Laws at the Queensland University of Technology. All of the appointments are designed to strengthen Fitzpatricks' advice offering and support advisers in building ...

AustralianSuper exec makes next top CIO list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... National Asset Management in 1999, while still studying a bachelor of commerce in finance and actuarial studies at the University of Melbourne. Within three years, he had jumped to an investment director role at Hastings Funds Management.

Industry fund welcomes new investment head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Selioutine was a quantitative analyst at Antipodean Capital Management and also served as a research assistant at the University of Melbourne. Selioutine replaces acting head of investment Alister Wong, who has departed the fund to take up a new role ...

Agriculture investment under parliament microscope

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... his time as Deputy Prime Minister encouraging super funds to invest. In 2015, corporate advisory firm BDO and The University of Queensland released a report which uncovered significant reasons why MySuper products had failed to invest above 0.3% of collective ...

Spaceship looks outside of superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... saying they answer to "internal capabilities" and the infrastructure they have in the business. Bennetts, 37 is a University of Queensland graduate and has worked at Goldman Sachs in family office investing. After this, he moved to a fund investment ...