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Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... on." But we focus on these hard measures because we can and so Australian Unity and the report's author, Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University, hope their Wellbeing Index will fill the gap. Despite overall happiness being quite stable ...

Enron Part Two

... practices to avoid public company frauds of Enron scale to happen again, in the wake of the sub-prime led market crisis. Professor Ira Solomon, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has argued that a massive overhaul of auditing practices ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... may therefore becoming harder to sustain and instead may signal deeper problems about to confront us. Reflecting this, Professor Wolfgang Fischer from the School of Economics at James Cook University in North Queensland, said, "the terms of trade should ...

CG not a priority for mid-caps

... risk management and share trading. The report findings, independently compiled by The University of Newcastle Associate Professor Jim Psaros, are based on the 2006 annual report disclosures of the 150 largest "mid-sized" Australian listed companies (ASX ...

MM over-diversification a myth: Russell

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... have up to 100 or more mandates on their books, far eclipsing the numbers held by traditional multi-managers. Ron Bird, professor of finance at the University of Technology in Sydney however dismissed the idea of having high numbers of managers. "If ...

Ambachtsheer receives Outstanding Industry Contribution Award

... Outstanding Industry Award at the 2007 European Pension Fund Awards held in Vienna last week. Ambachtsheer, an adjunct professor at Rotman School, beat ten nominees for the award, which was voted on by readers of Investments & Pensions Europe, a London-based ...

Investing by 2020

... be those which will integrate machine-based systems with seat-of-the-pants checks and balances, said Stephen Brown, professor of Finance at NYU and one of the investment experts Liem interviewed for the book. According to another interviewee, Bridgewater ...

QSuper appoints three GMs

... with Wilson HTM, JBWere & Son and Ord Minnett before starting an academic career in 1999. He is currently at QUT as Professor of Finance, Faculty of Business. The third appointee, Peter Fletcher, joins QSuper from CS Energy. Prior to CS, he has worked ...

Pension age too low: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... Development of Australia (CEDA). The report, written by Dr David Knox, a partner at Mercer who was previously the Foundation Professor of Actuarial Studies at the University of Melbourne, said the change is needed because maintaining a low fixed pension ...

Big improvements in Australian corporate governance: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... associate at the UTS CCG who worked on the study. This fundamentally different approach lead to surprising results, said Professor Thomas Clarke, director of the UTS CCG. "We embarked on an indepth CG study of Australia and expected to find gaps. But ...