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ASIC jobs cut as responsibilities rise

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... who breach the rules and would prefer infringement notices and enforceable undertakings. Sydney University Associate Professor of law Joanna Bird, said all regulatory organisations needed to live within their means and that ASIC could do an effective ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... point," he said, although it was not clear whether he may have been speaking tongue-in-cheek. University of Sydney tax law professor Michael Dirkis said interstate mergers can indeed trigger stamp duty events. "It's a disposal and reacquisition of the ...

Masters of Financial Regulation on offer for first time

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... institution has teamed up with Promontory Financial Group to offer the course, said to be a world's first, next year. Professor Kevin Jameson, director of Macquarie University's Applied Finance Centre, said the three-year course would be relevant for ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... named two: Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Darn their goes my five minutes of fame! The Wall Street Journal also led me ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... thumbtack that's holding the Eurozone together at the moment (the final nail in the coffin perhaps?) As Harvard University Professor Marin Feldstein writes in the Financial Times, "If Greece were the only insolvent European country, it would be best ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... community through a range of charitable organisations for his work in establishing the Make a Wish Foundation, Queensland. Professor Peter Wolnizer has held numerous board positions across the financial services, trade and business including a member ...

ANU partners with CFA Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Currently, there are 135 CFA Program Partner institutions around the world, which includes 32 in the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Jayne Godfrey, Dean of ANU College of Business and Economics, said, "Partnerships with key industry bodies such as CFA ...

London hedge fund banking on Twitter

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... human emotion. This is the fourth dimension," said Hawtin. The fund stems from research published by Johan Bollen, a professor of informatics at Indiana University, who demonstrated how the social networking site could be used to predict market sentiment. ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... Australian and global markets and what to look out for when investing in the Australian and international sharemarkets. Professor Bob Deutsch -KPMG Professor of Taxation, ATAX UNSW will provide a blueprint of the "do's" and "don'ts" for geared investors ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... buy). And this goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Only days later... ...