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Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... understand their clients' and, in turn, help them make better investment decisions, with the help of a scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. The financial crisis was characterised by investors taking money out of the market at the worst ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... need to engage appropriately with members in order to better understand what they want." Co-author of the study, University of Sydney Professor Susan Thorp, said the research provides insights into the wants and needs of super fund members, and how they ...

Ipac head of technical services joins Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... said. Lewis has specialised in technical advice since 1987 and holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma of Superannuation Management from Macquarie University. He has been an SMSF specialist adviser ...

Wilson to raise $550m for philanthropic LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... investors." FGG board and managers will act pro bono. The LIC will be chaired by Australian business leader and University of Sydney chancellor, Belinda Hutchinson AM. The board will also include Magellan Asset Management general manager of distribution ...

EY and UTS form financial data partnership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
EY and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) have launched an alliance to tackle the biggest data analytics challenges facing the Australian financial services industry. The financial services analytics alliance will see both organisations apply ...

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... shareholders and the Australian economy through leading to a less efficient deployment of capital," the paper continued. University of Sydney senior lecturer Andrew Ainsworth, chair of finance discipline Graham Partington and CIFR research director Geoff ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... by a fall in the May Chicago regional business activity index, into negative territory, and a sharp fall in the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index to 90.7 from 95.9 in April. The market was also being cautious going into the weekend with ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... school and then bought Carlton & United Breweries while studying his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, at the University of New South Wales. Remarkably, he has had breweries in his portfolio in one form or another ever since. Moore got his break ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
The University of Oxford has announced it will cease any future investments in coal and tar sands. Although the university said it will not divest from all fossil fuels, it's the latest in a group of academic institutions - including New Zealand's Victoria ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... (NAB) has upgraded the compensation program for victims of bad advice with the appointment of a consumer advocate. University of NSW professor of Law Dimity Kingsford Smith will act as a consumer advocate within NAB Wealth's advice complaints process. ...