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Freedom Insurance sells stake in NobleOak

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
Life insurance distributor Freedom Insurance Group is selling a stake in its issuer NobleOak Life after finalising a $7 million sale of its non-core investment in the company. The original investment was made in conjunction with the arrangement for ...

AFA secures international icon for conference lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... October. The Boomtown Rats lead singer will discuss the extensive humanitarian work that has seen him twice nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize; inspiring advisers with of his own experiences with adaptability and change, reflecting the current challenges ...

Philanthropists contribute to Australian literature

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
... recognition of her contribution to Australian literature. She will benefit from the proceeds of the Trust of Patrick White's 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. The award was established 42 years ago by White himself in order to support Australian literature ...

Myonlineadvisers teams up with US robo firm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... operating its portfolio management and crash testing engine since 2010. Among its clients it even lists the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation, which it helps to model the risk the foundation employs to protect the endowment of Alfred Nobel, ensuring the ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... well for consumer spending as full-timers have a greater sense of job security and income permanence. A theory developed by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman known as "Permanent Income Hypothesis". Similarly, while the unemployment rate ticked ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... methodology. Everything else about the term smart beta seems problematic. Stanford University professor Bill Sharpe, who won a Nobel Prize for defining the concepts of beta and alpha, famously said that the notion of smart beta makes him "definitionally ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... part-time jobs making up the difference. This plays very well in accord with the "permanent income hypothesis" formulated by Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman. More full-time jobs brings about expectations of more permanent income that, in turn ...

IRESS appoints board director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014
... including NAB's wealth management division MLC. He has also been a director at Growthpoint Properties, Calibre Group, Dyno Nobel, AAPT, Suncorp Metway, and Amcor. IRESS chairman Tony D'Aloisio said Tomlinson would bring broad and deep financial services ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... expressed nervousness at the latest surge in equity prices that last week lifted the Dow above 17,000 for the first time. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a television interview he was "very uncomfortable" with current stock prices ...

'Tis the season to be bubbly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013