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Australian IPOs beat US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
New research from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) has found Initial Public Offerings made in Australia could raise more capital than they could in the US, despite the Australian market's smaller size and depth. MGSM dean, Professor ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... his second huge piece of luck after deciding to take the Private Equity and Venture Capital course at Harvard Business School in 2007. "That was a sexy time for private equity so I was lucky to get on the course. We only had $25 million in assets under ...

National Achievement Awards to recognise top executives

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... are equipped for the sector's future challenges," Rantanen said. "Studying "Leading for Results" at the INSEAD business school, using the scholarship that accompanied this award, has certainly contributed to my performance as a COO of a profit-for-members ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...

BNP Paribas launches APAC philanthropy program

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... Youngsters benefitting from the program will receive training and regular practice in one or more artistic fields for over three school years. In Australia, the project Arts in the Dust will receive a grant worth $20,000 per year over three years. Winning ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical Investment has awarded $300,000 in community grants this month to support a number of causes both in Australia and globally. The manager is committed to donate 10% of its pre-tax profits to organisations that make a positive difference ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland Business School showed less than 0.3% of MySuper assets are within the agriculture sector as of 30 June 2014. It also found 0.44% of ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Sunsuper has appointed a former Queensland treasurer and a former Macquarie Bank executive director to its board, increasing the number of independent directors ahead of proposed federal government super board changes. Joining Sunsuper this month are ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was founded in Brisbane in 1997, to invest in the research ...