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Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Dr Louise Thornwaite and associate professor Sue Wright from Macquarie University, Dr Michael Rafferty from the University of Sydney and Christopher Angus from the McKell Institute - note that while independent trustees in theory should add a layer of ...

ASIC lowers wholesale investor threshold to $2.5 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... definition after a Senate Economics Committee inquiry into ASIC's performance recommended it. During the Senate inquiry, University of New South Wales law professor Dimity Kingsford Smith warned that "using wealth as a proxy of financial literacy is ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. Kishore Mahbubani said a transformation ...

PROFILE: Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... and a schoolteacher, Hartley went to Brisbane Boys' College before studying a bachelor of business at Queensland University of Technology. On graduating at the age of 23, he spent the first 10 years of his professional life working for what was then ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... in a small village in South Australia, Crafter moved to Geelong as a child; and later studied statistics in the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. "I found statistics interesting; I liked the pure abstract nature of mathematics, but statistics ...

MetLife Australia names new CFO

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Australian Society of CPA and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney and has completed an Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... Services Index for May, and the Reserve Bank's head of financial stability Luci Ellis is delivering a speech at the University of Adelaide. The market on Tuesday closed lower, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropping 38.8 points to 5,479.7 and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... have annual general meetings. And Rio Tinto's head of iron ore, Andrew Harding, is to speak at a conference at the University of WA. In Australia, the market on Wednesday had a flat session as investors supported mining stocks, offsetting falls among ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... university research grants. A team from Griffith University and a consortium of academics from Griffith University, University of Southern Queensland and University of New England won the grants. The initial grants are for $5,000 each and are aimed to ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... time, Ripoll was ready for another career change and left his full time job to study business at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). "I had always been interested in the political process and in the impact that government decisions have on ...