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PPS Mutual appoints head of distribution

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... deliver even more value to members." PPS Mutual recently announced Anthony Asher as the new chair. Asher is a long-serving academic at the University of New South Wales Business School's risk and actuarial studies department. He previously worked ...

Ditch cash, curb emotionally led investing: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
... technical perfection if you know that you are human and you'll likely to fail to get there." After compiling several academic and industry studies, Oxford Risk estimates that the average investor foregoes returns of 3% p.a. after making suboptimal ...

Super moves: Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... adjunct professorship at the University of Sydney Business School for 14 years. For six of those years, she served as academic co-lead for the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), leading the strategic integration of sustainable ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
Daily financial news can better predict stock market volatility and deliver more accurate signals about risk than backward-looking macroeconomic data, a new study suggests. University of Auckland finance lecturer Justin J. Case and Queensland University ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... findings, global network the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM) chair Tim Warrington said: "This is now the second academic, peer-reviewed study in recent years confirming what many investors already know: boutiques can deliver a premium over their ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... financial services on May 13, filling in the position previously held by Stephen Jones. Mulino's vast experience and academic qualifications, which includes working with the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve and lecturing, look to be a point ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Australia can get hurt by US President Donald Trump's 'incoherent' and 'lunatic' tariff policies that appear to have no logic or endgame if China's economy experiences a drastic slowdown, academics say. Australian National University ...

New gig for JP Morgan's AI guru

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... industry, regulators and academia through a series of quarterly 'Quantferences' which provide access to the latest academic research and financial markets insights. Before joining JP Morgan, he worked for seven years with MSCI/Barra where he ...

SEC names acting chair, establishes crypto taskforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that US President Donald Trump has appointed Mark Uyeda as acting chair of the agency. "I am honored to serve in this capacity after serving as a commissioner since 2022, and a member of the staff ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... the world and created friendships across the business, sports, music, philanthropic, environmental, conservation, and academic communities," TPG said. "Rarely the loudest person in the room, but often the smartest, David remained humble, once saying ...