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Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... Improvement (BPI), consulted external advisers and implemented the changes over a seven to 12 month period. Ingo Walter, professor and director at SimCorp StrategyLab, said those investment management businesses that continually kept an eye on costs ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... excessive choice, said industry veteran, Jack Gray. Gray, former co-head of asset allocation at GMO and current adjunct professor at UTS, argues that one of the ways funds could cut cost and manage the headache of too much investment choice, is to actually ...

AIST measures investment choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... three years. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) survey conducted by Paul Gerrans, associate professor at Edith Cowan University, found less than 6.5 per cent of pre-retirement savings were switched over three years to June. The ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me, a recovery is a recovery is a recovery. Last night, dear old Professor Nouriel Roubini was back in the headlines after publishing his op-ed in the Financial Times entitled, "The risk of a double-dip ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... are missing out on the Asian equities boom with their negligible exposure to international equities. Ralf Zurbrugg, a professor at the University of Adelaide, revealed at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia conference earlier this year that ...

Independent directors not always a good thing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... as industry aligned directors are likely to bring more value after the GFC, said an academic expert. RenA(C)e Adams, professor of finance at UQ Business School and a contributing author to SimCorp StrategyLab's recently launched book, Understanding the ...

V still likely

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... expects growth to reach plus (yes plus) 2.5 per cent in the third quarter as businesses rebuild their depleted stocks. Professor Nouriel Roubini, now an "ex-permabear", told a mining conference in Western Australia that, "there is now potentially light ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... why this is big news. Gerard, of course, was not the first to do a somersault. There was Access Economics. There was Professor Nouriel Roubini. There were the IMF and the OECD upgrading their growth outlook for the global economy. For how could they ...

Eslake joins think-tank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... is supported by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments, the University of Melbourne and BHP Billiton. John Daley, professor and chief executive at the institute, said Eslake's appointment is the first in a number to be announced in the next few months. ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... days was the market trying to reel in more suckers is a positive. How can they? Not now. Not when their flag bearer, Professor Nouriel Roubini, has already come out of the bear closet and declared he has turned bull. The Financial Standard Intelligence ...