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Outgoing QIC chief appointed to Suncorp board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... smooth handover. McTaggart was previously the Under Treasurer and Under Secretary of the Queensland Treasury, and was professor of economics and associate dean at Bond University. "I am delighted to appoint two directors of the quality of Dr Doug McTaggart ...

Confusion over APRA risk disclosure guidance

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... Sydney. Speaking at an Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) seminar in Sydney yesterday, Susan Thorp, professor in finance and superannuation, delivered findings from an experiment conducted on how consumers understand investment risk. ...

Post-retirement risk in Australia: IMCA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... markets in other countries to Australia and looked at how behavioural factors can affect market outcomes. John Piggott, professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, and director of centre for pensions and superannuation in Sydney, said ...

Volcker Rule dramatics continue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
The Volcker rule intended to be help protect banks from future failure is being torn between critics who think it will gut the US corporate bond market and Congressmen who think it still contains too many loopholes. Meanwhile, former US Treasury Secretary ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... respected economist who served as commissioner for EU internal markets and competition for 10 years, as well as economics professor at the renowned Turin University for 15 years, is tasked with guiding his country through a debt crisis that has threatened ...

Finsia announces award winners

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... director Westpac and chair of the Russell Australasia Advisory Board. The award for most outstanding thought leader went to professor Michael E Drew, managing director of lifecycle strategies at QIC and professor of finance at the business school, Griffith ...

Finsia award nominees announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... Dr Ishaq Batti, La Trobe University, Paul Clitheroe AM, IPAC Securities, Tony Day, Scarce Capital (ex Future Fund), Professor Michael Drew, Professor Stephen Gray, Queensland Investment Corporation and Griffith University, Richard Keary, FRM Australia ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... and chairman of a number of public and private companies. In addition to his political background, Hewson was also a professor of economics, and head of the school of economics at the University of New South Wales and two years as Dean, Macquarie Graduate ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... the government, according to five of the nine members of the panel that dates recessions. Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein, one of the members of committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said he sees a 50 percent ...

ASIC commissioner new chief of FOS

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... wider supervision framework," said Medcraft. Belinda Gibson, ASIC's deputy chairman, will take on Tregillis's duties. Professor Michael Lavarch, chair of FOS, said Tregillis was selected as he had lead change in the past and could effectively engage ...