Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 341 - 350 of 485 results for "Professor"

AFA award launched to encourage female financial planners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... participation but excellence in what has, traditionally, been the male-dominated arena of financial services," said Professor the Honourable Jennifer Boland, speaking at the Award's launch last night. Brett Clark, CEO Retail Life of TOWER Australia said ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... positive outlook for US stocks but referred to the Australian housing market as a bubble. Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the troubled North American country, which must seek approval from ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... rising public debt levels, Feldstein said. Any interest rate rise would further hurt US real estate which the economics professor said had resumed falling. About 30 per cent of all residential mortgages had negative equity. Commercial real estate was ...

ASX eyes merger alternatives

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... experts, the merger's collapse will come as a relief, given the level of skepticism when the deal was first agreed. Professor Peter Swan from the School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, said a takeover ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... earthquake, with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, said the idea that reconstruction would stimulate ...

ACFS appoints Duffield as chair

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... Financial Services Association has previously served on the Federal Government's Financial Sector Advisory Council. Professor Deborah Ralston, director of the Centre, whose mission is to connect the academic community with government and the financial ...

ACFS awards innovation and investment stewardship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... Victorian Innovation in Funds Management Award is La Trobe Financial Services with their Pooled Australian Mortgages Fund. Professor Deborah Ralston, director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which hosts the annual MFSS, said the core ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... the deal with the Singapore Stock Exchange goes through, despite the concessions announced yesterday, experts warned. Professor Peter Swan from the School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, who is a ...

CREATE predicts golden age for stockpickers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... up to 50 per cent investment in beta products such as ETFs and specific themes such as environmental funds. However, Professor Amin, Rajan, chief executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE), feels that the best ...

ACFS names award finalists

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... Goldman Sachs Asset Management & Partners Australia Lend Lease Investment Management Australia UCA Funds Management Professor Deborah Ralston, director of ACFS, said all the finalists were assessed on their application of environmental, social and governance ...