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High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... of computer-based trading including better liquidity, lower transaction costs, and more efficient market prices. But Professor John Beddington, the study's author and the UK government's chief scientific adviser, warned that 'in specific circumstances ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... confidence is the result of diminished risk appetite among both North American and Asian investors," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United States Federal ...

Treasury paper ignores responsibility: ACFS

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... appear warranted, wider ranging consequences of the increased powers need adequate discussion. ACFS research director Professor Kevin Davis said one issue of concern was the fact that regulated institutions often undertake a broad range of activities ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... loss of sovereignty. I hate to say this but unless the crisis in Europe worsens, expect further kicks of the can. As Professor Jacob Barnhardt remarked, "...it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve." ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... "paperclips, dual-use items or things that are not specific to nuclear weapons or their delivery systems," said associate professor Tilman Ruff, in his testimony to the inquiry. "These are companies that are integrally involved in the production of key ...

Stammer joins Centric Wealth investment committee

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... positions including chief economist and director of investment strategy with Deutsche Bank. Other roles include visiting professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management and director of several major investment groups and listed companies such ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

FPA launches consultation on financial planning education

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... there has been no consistent model of a financial planning curriculum and no consistent approach to accreditation," said Professor David Lamond, FPEC chairman. "The Financial Planning Education Council's proposal is for a consultation on the introduction ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... one of the various phases of the crisis." And then there's Mr. Willem Buiter - Citigroup chief economist, economics professor at the London School of Economics and ex-Bank of England monetary policy committee member - proclaiming that Spain "is now at ...

Genetics not education drives investor behaviour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... investment decisions, reveals new research. The shock results are contained in a study by Henrik Cronqvist, associate professor of financial economics at the Claremont McKenna College, and Stephen Siegel, visiting assistant professor of finance at Arizona ...