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Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... sentence doesn't scare you, I don't know what else will. More so, when I tell you that this was made by no less than Monsieur Donald Tusk - the President of the European Council. OK, Tusk may have been a teenie-weenie bit carried away with that foreboding ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... March this year. May's disappointing US employment numbers may have just given Uncle Sam another bullet to hit the RBA - or Donald Trump? - with... maybe. Whether our good uncle does or doesn't is beside the point - he can cry if he wants to - the point ...

Platypus Asset Management announces CIO's departure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... investment officer has announced he will step away from his investment and management responsibilities due to health reasons. Donald Williams will remain with the Platypus business, acting in a business advisory and mentoring role. The changes will see ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... equities to zig when most others zagged? Or the upcoming 2 July Federal elections (but this was called over the weekend)? Or Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee? It's none of the above. It is the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... March from 1.7% in the previous month. Overall, there's really nothing much in April that we've not seen before, or to use Donald's - Rumsfeld (the former US defense secretary) not the Trump - they are "known knowns". Because of this, I'm tempted to ...

All super funds should have independent chair: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... seven industry recommendations on fund governance. Co-authors Dr Suzanne Le Mire (University of Adelaide) and Dr Scott Donald (University of New South Wales) said the majority of fund executives interviewed felt their boards were functioning cohesively ...

No evidence that independence would boost performance: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... Government has set instilling independence within the governance of superannuation as a key priority for the sector. Dr Scott Donald of the University of New South Wales, who completed the research together with Suzanne Le Mire of the University of Adelaide ...

Maple-Brown Abbott global infra fund added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... third party marketer manage relationships with the research houses and platforms. The firm's head of distribution, Alex Donald said, "The Maple-Brown Abbott GLI Fund has been hugely successful since its launch into the retail space in February 2015. ...

Aussie fintechs sell to grow

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... "That's how scalable the technology is today," Porter said. Chief executive at digital financial advice platform BigFuture, Donald Hellyer, said the product's creation was not to run people's money but rather paint a picture. "People don't necessarily ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott Donald said. "People say it's the reason super is expensive, it's the reason for poor performance," Donald continued. During a session ...