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Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... zero carbon and zero waste policies, according to new research. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, who leads Macquarie University's Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance, says market forces will drive the clean-energy momentum with ...

New initiatives ready advisers for the future

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... provide tips on choosing a course, planning a study timetable, producing written assignments and taking examinations in a university environment," wealthdigital technical manager Rob Lavery said.

Charity donates $10m to university

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
Owners of an ASX-listed company donated $10 million to a university with campuses in Coffs Harbor and Queensland to fund research. Marcus Blackmore and wife Catherine of the $2 billion vitamin empire Blackmores made the personal donation to Southern ...

Asset managers join diversity program

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... year, with our National Investments Competition to be run in universities across the country in partnership with the University Network of Investing and Trading society," she said. "We're looking forward to placing the competition's winning team in one ...

AMP Capital adds to student living portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... AMP Capital entered a long-term agreement to manage the first student accommodation facilities to be offered at the University of Melbourne. The investment manager, via the AMP Capital Diversified Infrastructure Trust, will manage the refurbishment and ...

BlackRock appoints regional head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... BlackRock's head of Americas corporate strategy. She has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Monash University, and a Master of Philosophy in comparative social policy from Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. She was ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... One of these "controls" - the balanced scorecard - has been described as flawed in the latest research from Macquarie University's Department of Applied Finance. It says this common industry remuneration metric is not as robust as first thought. It found ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices cannot be predicted. ...

Royal Commission on social media: Executives grilled

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... @llenten ? https://t.co/5yCR2coHzR | via @ConversationEDU #BankingRC #ausecon pic.twitter.com/2kyf546X8q - La Trobe University (@latrobe) November 23, 2018 La Trobe University suggested confiscating the superannuation of corporate executives might halt ...

ETF issuer hires Olympian

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Knapman who joins after three years in data, operations and product roles at Morningstar Australasia. Earlier this month, University of Sydney graduate Nicola Culey joined ETFS to work across both sales and research teams. Last month, ETFS moved its ...