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New study on precious metal hedge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... desirable for investment? These are the closely linked questions we wanted to explore in this study," Yoon said. The researchers analysed the relationship between the returns of nine precious metals: gold, silver, palladium, platinum, nickel, lead, zinc ...

The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... with 'bad' switches defined as having a negative impact on superannuation balances compared to doing nothing. The researchers theorised this increase in switching behaviour is directly associated with the ease of online switching access now available ...

Preqin expands local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... Russell, who was recently promoted to the role from senior research associate. The two are Preqin's first on the ground researchers focussed on the fund manager (or general partner) data. "Their joining is a planned growth of the team and strengthening ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
Researchers from the University of New South Wales have issued an alarming report on the state of the Australian housing market, referring to it as a "beast" that is "rampaging through the economy". The researchers are calling for a Royal Commission ...

Iress hires head of product design

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... experience. He is also currently chair and mentor of RMIT Venture Mentoring Service to help prospective entrepreneurs and researchers to develop business skills and design leader forum member at InVision. Ansari was previously head of user experience ...

Research on education standards and morals launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... ethics exam administered by the soon-to-be defunct Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA). Some researchers argue that a national exam will be insufficient in ensuring ethical behaviour, while others suggest that codes of ethics should ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... perform better or worse when they were forced to work from home last year? That is the question UNSW Business school researchers sought to answer. A study by UNSW Business School associate professors Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James Doran looked at how ...

Foreign capital driving property market: RCA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... global and local data. Moreover, it is my hope that the local expertise and support offered by our team of analysts, researchers, and client relationship managers will prove an invaluable resource to our clients in Australia, both veteran and new."

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
New research from University of Melbourne researchers has identified two reasons why financial advisers don't recommend annuities to their clients. Orford Initiative's latest findings found advisers play a key role in recommending annuities, but face ...

Insider trading four times more common

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... prosecutions. The research was conducted by Vinay Patel and Talis Putnins from the University of Technology Sydney. The researchers developed a new model to predict the prevalence of insider trading based on information from all prosecuted insider trading ...