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Iress hires head of product design

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... from digital consultant firm Transpire where he was director of user experience. He is also currently chair and mentor of RMIT Venture Mentoring Service to help prospective entrepreneurs and researchers to develop business skills and design leader forum ...

Value of internet search for stock markets revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
New research from RMIT has found that suppressing internet searches creates stock market instability. The research reviewed the impact on stock markets of Google's decision in 2010 to unexpectedly withdraw its search business from China. It found that ...

Household capital a retirement solution: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... solution to a comfortable retirement, new research shows. The latest research from Heartland Seniors Finance conducted by RMIT University found 90% of senior Australians want to remain in their home for as long possible but limited superannuation and ...

Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... disclose board-level diversity from the date the proposal is approved. What does this mean for Australia's public companies? RMIT University senior lecturer of finance Angel Zhong says the ASX has a mandated a 30% gender diversity target but lags ...

RIR reveals bleak financial upside for disabled people

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... of disabled people have making ends meet throughout their lives. Today is the International Day of People with Disability. RMIT professor Penelope Weller said that the day should cause pause to consider that Australia has not always treated those with ...

Reverse mortgages used to extinguish debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
More older Australians are increasingly using reverse mortgages to pay off debt, a new survey found. RMIT University found two in five (44%) seniors used reverse mortgages to refurbish their homes after surveying over 9700 customers of Heartland Seniors ...

Household capital remains key: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... current retirees to boost their retirement funding." Associate professor in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT, Stuart Thomas, said despite the high rate of home ownership for many, superannuation and the age pension will still not ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... remuneration as one of the factors keeping women out of the financial advice industry. The University of Otago in New Zealand and RMIT University in Melbourne have collaborated to explore why so many fewer women go into financial advice compared to men. ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... between ages 55 and 64 that owe money on mortgages has tripled since 1990 - from 14% to 47%, according to the study from RMIT and Curtin University. The average mortgage debt-to-income ratio among those with mortgages has also blown out in that time ...

Frontier expands business, hires five

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... qualitative portfolio analysis, and other risk management functions across different asset classes. Having recently lectured at RMIT, Ann Tran joins the capital markets and asset allocation team as an econometrics associate, bringing her background in ...