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Use super to help pay health costs: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... bill. Superannuation and healthcare both being built on public funding models and tax incentives reinforce the overlap. Professor Stephen Martin, CEDA chief executive, said in a statement that this could be done by "introducing pre-funding for healthcare ...

NGS Super adds three new directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... as head and business manager of numerous independent schools over the past 25 years. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the School of Education at the University of NSW. Le Duff was, for the last 17 years, chief executive of the Association ...

ISPT, Cbus, Omega stewardship and innovation award winners

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... portfolio management tool that uses MSCI ESG data to enhance proprietary fundamental analysis of issuer credit risk. Professor Deborah Ralston, executive director of the ACFS, said, "Each year the calibre of applications improves and the judging panels ...

Small shareholders eclipsed by instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... annual reports, and was conducted for the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) by University of Melbourne professor Dr Carole Comerton-Forde. "The ASX Share Ownership surveys in the 1990s showed increasing levels of retail ownership. However ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... analyzing the actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors. It was developed by Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot and Paul O'Connell of State Street Associates. The index tracks changes in investor risk appetite so that the ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Underscoring the investment path less traveled by London-based Winton Capital Management is a reliance on a cadre of in-house research brainiacs to unearth more reliable returns. Its flagship managed futures fund boasts a 120-man team comprising a mixture ...

In-house investment management risky

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... 'agency risk' into a HR (human resource) risk, and internal managers are harder to terminate," said John Evans, associate professor at the UNSW Australian School of Business, speaking at the ASFA annual conference yesterday. David Hartley, chief investment ...

Aus PE funds on the right side of supply & demand

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... mandates awarded in the United States show that investors are demanding more influence, said Harvard investment banking professor Josh Lerner. Investment managers are realising that they can't rely on high fees and great "deal makers" and now need to ...

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... remain clueless when comes to 'all things' retirement. This was the overarching message that Hazel Bateman, associate professor from the University of NSW (School of Actuarial Studies) shared with delegates attending the Certified Investment Management ...

Investor confidence hits 14 year low

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... investor confidence is at the lowest level it has been since the inception of the ICI in 1998," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index. "This month's reading is 1.5 points below the previous low set in October of ...