Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 291 - 300 of 382 results for "Science"

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 ...

GESB appoints new member director

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... Association's Superannuation Committee and serves on the Public Service Appeals Board. Townsing has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from Curtin University.

ASFA backs CSIRO/Monash superannuation research alliance

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... sectors of the economy gain more investment, said the CSIRO. "How Australia uses its superannuation matters to all of us and science can contribute to the evidence base to help manage it better," said Alan Dormer, head of CSIRO government and commercial ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... Ben Trollip as an investment research consultant in its Australian Investment business. Trollip, who holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian Fixed Interest Manager Research Team from ...

Northern Trust secures UK charity mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... navigate these complexities." The Nesta Trust is a newly created independent charity formed from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to provide investments and grants in order to support research, network formation and skills ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... loose last time, then we all could move on. But then who knows what could have happened? After all, economics is not a science. Not with shifting parameters and varying variables. Experiments cannot be repeated, not even for a second time, to see what ...