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Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... Sequencing risk can have a "catastrophic impact" on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according Michael E. Drew, Professor of Finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

Brokers tip stocks ahead of public announcement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... in trading volume by recommending brokers before the public release of the analyst reports in the study conducted by Professor Andrew Lepone, Dr. Jin Boon Wong and PhD candidate Ming Ying Lim. According to CMCRC, this evidence suggested that analysts ...

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... SPAA said. Those speakers will include AMP SMSF head of policy and technical Peter Burgess, Griffith Business School professor of finance Michael Drew, Super Sphere director Belinda Aisbett, and SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery. Session titles include ...

ACFS flummoxed by SMSF cash trend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... favour cash over fixed-interest products. The paper, entitled 'The Future Demand and Supply of Finance', authored by Professor Rodney Maddock and Peter Munckton, is part of the ACSA's 'Funding Australia's Future' project. The authors quote figures from ...

Super syphons savings from banks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... lent. This would have a significant effect on the economy in general. However, the authors of part two of the report, Professor Rodney Maddock and Peter Munckton, said: "The effect would however be exactly offset if superannuation funds provided deposits ...

Chi-X saved investors $215 million in first year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... launch, a study conducted by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has estimated. The study's lead author, Professor Michael Aitken, chief executive of the CMCRC and Professor of Finance at UNSW, also expects the saving to increase as Chi-X's ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... activity results in higher transaction costs across all venues, and lower price efficiency overall. CMCRC chief executive Professor Mike Aitken, said the study confirmed what many already suspected about the state of US markets. "The extent of fragmentation ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
At the Actuaries Summit held in Sydney this week, Professor Anthony Asher of the Actuaries Institute's Retirement Income Working Group stressed the need to develop a "vibrant annuity market", in line with much of the rest of the world. "It's very difficult ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... pushing," preliminary results of research about how women manage money have revealed In the first stage of the research, professor Roslyn Russell from RMIT University and Amalia Di Lorio from La Trobe University interviewed 100 women of different backgrounds ...

No decision yet on QIC sale

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... The Report's chairman was former federal treasurer Peter Costello. Former QIC chief executive Dr Doug McTaggart and professor Sandra Harding were also on the steering committee. QIC's assets under management at end December 2012 was $69 billion, according ...