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Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... received an A-grade rating and are the only two to do so in the index's seven year history. Australian Centre for Financial Studies executive director, Amy Auster, said the Index continues to be used by policy makers and researchers to assess the merits ...

FSI panellist challenges ASIC register sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... for the sale of ASIC's Business Registers. Davis, who is the research director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, has released a discussion paper, titled Privatising Public Information: The Sale of the ASIC Business Registers, wherein he ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... affordable in its own right," the ISA statement said. According to a report released by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) last week, the average superannuation balance at retirement ...

ACFS director steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
After six years as an executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Professor Deborah Ralston is stepping down from her role. In overseeing the continuing development of the centre, Ralston initiated projects such as the ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... vulnerable older Australians to access their own super savings." Research conducted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and AIST in 2014 found that up to 40% of older Australians currently do not get to choose when they retire due to a range ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... financial relationships. This is one of the findings in a Finsia-sponsored report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which also says Australia's exports of financial services are larger than the value of tourism exports and more than double ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... investors. That was one of the conclusions at a recent roundtable discussion hosted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) and attended by 15 finance experts including academics, economists, credit analysts and senior investment professionals ...

Laminar fund wins award for innovation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... time providing small companies with funding, difficult to access from other sources." Australian Centre for Financial Studies executive director Professor Ralston said: "It is hard to overstate the impact of technology across financial services. It will ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) has appointed two senior executives from the financial services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior ...

Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... lecturer. Dr Pelma Rajapakse of Griffith University was commissioned to write a report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies. In it she investigates some of the largest cases of fraud committed by fund managers across four countries including ...