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Mercer grows ESG team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... firm. She was recognised as a Rising Star of Corporate Governance in 2009 by the Millstein Centre for Corporate Governance at Yale University. Mercer Partner and head of Mercer's Responsible Investments for Asia Pacific, Helga Birgden, said: "Implementing ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... National Academy of Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney and colleagues at New York University and Yale's School of Medicine that found people aged over 65 are more likely to make poor financial decisions even if they have high ...

Select AM strengthens partnership with MGD Wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
... Select Investment Partners providing them asset consulting and implemented portfolio services," Select executive officer David Yale said. Yale added that the asset manager is in discussions with other non-aligned dealer groups who are also looking for ...

Onto the next worry: Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... of the market. The biggest endowment funds were found to be Harvard University with US$30.4 billion in assets, followed by Yale University with US$19.3 billion, University of Texas System with US$18.3 billion, and Stanford University and Princeton University ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... third quarter after surging from $7 in March 2009, the quickest recovery since at least 1900, according to data from S&P and Yale University's Robert Shiller compiled by Bloomberg. The gap between projected 12-month profits and average earnings over ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... university seemed to prepare students for. "A closer look at 2011 senior hires found that 75% of those with Penn/Wharton, Yale, and Harvard undergraduate degrees are working as investment professionals (analyst and portfolio manager), the highest-payed ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Super funds modeling their investment strategies on the highly successful Yale Endowment Fund should be careful, warns an academic. The Yale Endowment Fund (YEF) is famous for the high returns it achieves from investment in private equity funds, returns ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... since January last year. Data like these are just a stone's throw away from calls for a double-dip. And right on cue, we have Yale University economist Robert Schiller saying just that. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Noted economist Robert Shiller ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... then it's the time to sell (or buy). And this goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high ...