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Russell multi-manager funds get top Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... significant strides made with regard to attribution and risk management capabilities. Two strategies managed by Investment Science were placed on 'redeem'. For multi-manager funds overall, Zenith said it has observed significant progress in the areas ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
While investors and SMSF promoters point to taxation and compliance as the sector's biggest risks, human and lifestyle factors may actually be bigger threats. Last week the consulting group Deloitte generated much fanfare with a report containing projections ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... concerned we will be applying our skills in big data analytics, financial mathematics, real options, risk modeling, social science and behavioural economics." CSIRO research theme leader Alan Dormer said. The academic research program was drawn together ...

Demographic megatrends drive earnings well into the future

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
A focus on demographic megatrends makes it possible to make earnings forecasts beyond investment analysts' typical three-year horizon, creating opportunities to take advantage of mispriced stocks, according to Fidelity portfolio managers Hilary Natoff ...

Govt to index military age pensions

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... inquiries and already implemented reforms to retirement benefits for combat and disabled veterans. The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon and the Minister for Defence Materiel Mike Kelly announced the changes this morning. The ...

Social media anything but rocket science

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... for profit, and it's ultimately designed to make them realise that the clever deployment of social media is not rocket science." But while it may not be rocket science, he says what financial advisers typically lack is the knowledge to piece the social ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... post-grads and professors from a diverse range of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, climatology, actuarial science and - quite incredibly - extragalactic astrophysics. "Just as scientists are trying to find patterns in the cosmic background ...

Public pension deficit exceeds $1trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... quantifies the challenge facing these pensions as they work to satisfy retirement promises." Significant advances in medical science mean that people are living much longer than pensions had planned for. Couple this with poor stock market returns and ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... different position than what would've occurred had we not done anything." Maybe, maybe not. Too bad economics is a social science. We cannot repeat the experiment, remove the QE variable, and see what the outcome would have been. But we have to play ...

BlackRock earns double honours at hedge fund awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... said. Other winners include Optimal Australian Absolute Trust, for best long short & absolute return fund; Investment Science Access SRA 16 Fund, for best multi strategy fund; GMO Systematic Global Macro Trust, for best global macro / futures fund; Kapstream ...