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Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... public was also invited to vote for a "People's Choice Winner" from among the finalists. The winners were the Going To School program in India that teaches children about financial literacy, the Shanghai F-road Commercial Services program that helps ...

Member activism could hurt super returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... of 200 supporters when HESTA made public its decision to divest. NGS Super has over 101,000 members, many of which are school teachers: "If we went out and did a poll, I know what the answers would have been," Rodwell-Ball said. But he added that the ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... home from Europe that he remembered the "dummy stock market" competition for the Herald Sun he had participated in in high school that he realised what he wanted to be: a stockbroker. There was just one problem: aside from "selling tea and coffee" at ...

AFA Female Excellence semi-finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... late stage. The award, developed in 2011 as a joint initiative by the AFA and TAL and supported by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), recognises and showcases the talents and contributions of women in financial advice to their clients ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... (US$6.8 billion) from hedge funds since the beginning of 2015. Professor Stephen Brown from the New York University Stern School of Business has been studying hedge funds for close to four decades and has even testified before the House of Representatives ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... family. "We still talk about that time with a lot of joy," he beams. Returning to Australia for the children to go to high school and to reunite them with the Australian family, Braga became head of product at J. P. Morgan. With all this varied experience ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... industry market concentration has actually intensified. Senator Warren, who prior to running for office was a Harvard Law School professor specialising in bankruptcy law, has recently taken aim at the Securities Exchanges Commission (SEC), arguing that ...

Griffith, FPA launch academic advice journal

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
Griffith Business School and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will publish an academic journal dedicated to financial planning. The Financial Planning Research Journal will publish academic research around financial advice and it is aimed at ...

Former FPA chair to leave Hood Sweeney

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... the remainder of 2015 to ensure a smooth transition while at the same time undertaking further study at Harvard Business School. Hood Sweeney's new managing director will be Chris Stewart, who joined the company in 2011 as head of business development. ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... be a stock picker. He bought his first shares in Blue Metal Industries (later taken over by Boral) while he was still at school and then bought Carlton & United Breweries while studying his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, at the University of ...