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UniSuper announces new chairman

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... the new chairman the board of trustees for UniSuper. Bryan will step into the role vacated by the retiring Emeritus Professor Brian Smith AO, who is stepping down at the end of this year after 14 years of working with the fund. Professor Smith was involved ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... they adhere to minimum wage rates as well as the visa conditions. This announcement comes at a time when a report by Professor Bob Birrell of the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research highlights the fact that about half of the school ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... about the coming national inflation data which will affect the RBA's interest rates decision on 7 November. Analysis by Professor Bob Birrell of Monash University in tandem with the Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association has found that thousands ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... cent of GDP. The Victoria Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate has released a report by Monash University Associate Professor Peter Gahan on the new Work Choices industrial relations laws which concludes that around 20 per cent of callers to their ...

DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

... Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash University's Professor Robert Faff and their team of about 80 researchers are working on the project. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
... Sydney University researchers who have slowed the speed of light in a controlled fashion for the first time in history. Professor Benjamin Eggleton said that the development could initiate a new generation of fibre networks that could carry 40GB per ...

Pentacle adds more experience to the team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... funds, develop new products and grow the company." Apted joins the rest of the Pentacle team made up of Burkitt, chairman Professor Bob Officer, independent director Michael Easson and major shareholder Salta Properties, who brought their property fund ...

Plum puts increased super savings on auto-pilot

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... take home pay, but a significant boost to their super savings, eventually ramping up to 15 per cent of their earnings. Professor Shlomo Benartzi, Associate Professor and co-chair of the Behavioural Decision-Making Group at the UCLA Anderson School of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... working age people of the Solomon Islands could be employed in Australia. On the issue of employment, Adelaide University Professor of Geography Graeme Hugo says that it is difficult to estimate the number of Australian professionals working overseas ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

... policy and called for a major review of the country's financial system akin to the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business and Public Policy at Melbourne Business School, noted the major ...