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Govt to inject $25m into 'best practice' regulation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
The government will pump up to $25 million over four years into a new centre that will teach and train the next generation of financial regulators in Australia while building ties with the regulatory powers-that-be in Asia. Speaking at a post-Budget ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... statistics are intended for a consumer audience when in reality they contain results and data useful primarily for trade and academic users. Both IFSA and ASFA agree, notwithstanding the APRA tables describe the economic measure of 'return on assets' ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
A US-based study has found many US fund managers are churning their portfolio more often than they said they would - giving new evidence that short-termism is rife and long-termism is just lip service for many. The study found nearly two thirds of institutionally ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... from Griffith University, and is a highly regarded researcher on the provision of retirement income. He was the only academic invited to present at the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor Joint Hearing on target date funds ...

Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... far as supporting the idea of Annual General Meetings (AGM) or that super funds should require trustees to have certain academic qualifications or additional skills outside what's already required by the SIS Act. Liz Westover, head of superannuation ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... growth of the Asian region if the world is, as some experts predict, entering the Asian Century? Not quite. Based on academic research published this week, asset allocation into Asian markets in the next two to five years will barely move from where ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... muscle to stop them, there are ways for pension funds to quickly spot the next Madoff. Professor Stephen Brown, a top academic who presented at a hearing on financial services before the US Congress in 2007, said his latest research on hedge fund due ...

Cooper stalls APRA data review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
The launch of the Cooper Review has done what 18 months of lobbying by retail interest groups and dozens of academic and rebuttal papers couldn't - it forced a halt to APRA's review of its superannuation statistics. In a statement issued late last week ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... super funds are violating their fiduciary duty while imposing unnecessary costs on members, said a leading superannuation academic. "The current system of a myriad of investment options not only increased costs but allowed trustees to abrogate their ...