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RSPT is govt trying to pick winners: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... shows overseas investors Australia is prepared to change the rules at the height of a boom, said a leading tax academic. Professor Neil Warren from the Australian School of Taxation at the University of New South Wales was reported in the UNSW Australian ...

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... chair in financial investments at Southern Methodist University, and as director of the Financial Markets Institute and professor of finance at the University of Iowa. He is a frequent presenter and author, whose work has appeared in the Journal of Financial ...

FOS appoints Belleville to board

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Association of British Insurers. The board of directors has an equal number of industry and consumer representatives. Professor Michael Lavarch acts as chair of the board. FOS resolves disputes between consumers and financial services providers.

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night, saying that the S&P 500 would need to sink another 27 per cent to reach the average ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... adjust the risk faced by a member as he or she approaches retirement. QIC has appointed an expert on retirement incomes, professor Michael E Drew, to lead this initiative. Drew is from Griffith University, and is a highly regarded researcher on the provision ...

AIST and VU unveil graduate course

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... Superannuation Management - aimed at current trustee directors and others involved with the superannuation industry. Professor Pauline Stanton, the head of the Victoria Graduate School of Business (VGSB) at Victoria University said that relationships ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... consumption (19 per cent), water consumption (16 per cent) and carbon emissions (14 per cent). On the upside, Dr. Nils Kok, professor at Maastricht University and principal author of the report, said that the environmental performance of the property ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... markets in the next two to five years will barely move from where they are today - up a mere 0.3 per cent to 2.8 per cent. Professor John Evans, the University of NSW academic who conducted the research, said he was surprised that the allocation to the ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... and while the regulators lack muscle to stop them, there are ways for pension funds to quickly spot the next Madoff. Professor Stephen Brown, a top academic who presented at a hearing on financial services before the US Congress in 2007, said his latest ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... increased costs but allowed trustees to abrogate their main function of looking after the interests of members," said professor John Evans, deputy director of the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation at the UNSW Australian School of Business. Evans ...