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Ibbotson secures NEO Financial Solutions mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... will help us establish a differentiated and customised investment offering based on its strong foundations in academic research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction services."

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... difference to different measurement methodologies and has called for a more robust methodology arising from academic research to be used to make comparison between asset classes meaningful. With alternative assets and hedge funds in particular breaking ...

ACFS appoints Duffield as chair

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... Jeremy's strong and current connection with US industry and academic circles will help ACFS in raising the bar on academic research quality," she said. Melbourne-based Duffield has replaced ACFS former chairman Syd Bone in the role. Bone, chairman for ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... Investors make some of their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... of the Asian region if the world is, as some experts predict, entering the Asian Century? Not quite. Based on academic research published this week, asset allocation into Asian markets in the next two to five years will barely move from where they are ...

Politics wield power over asset prices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... Republican fund managers. US-based publication, Advisor Perspectives, this week reported the findings from an academic research paper, titled Red and Blue Investing: Values and Finance. The report's authors drew their research from a database that analysed ...

Legalsuper hires investment expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... of direct investment management experience at several fund managers and deep financial market insights from academic research over six years as Associate Professor of Finance at the Melbourne Business School," said Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of ...

SPAA reloads for 2009

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
This year the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) will get more involved in parliamentary inquiries, add more staff to provide a better service to members and change its advertising campaign. Speaking yesterday at ...

UN launches PRI think tank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... Engagement (ECCE) conference. James Gifford, PRI executive director, said there is a relatively small amount of academic research that looks into the approach and beyond the questions of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund out performance. ...

Lincoln to launch more 'golden rule' funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... overseas markets," said D'Amato. "That said there would need to be research, one of our core elements is the strong academic research that's behind what we do. Once we're comfortable with the model in overseas markets we'll look to develop those products." ...