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Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... fraud are not a severe enough deterrent, according to a senior university lecturer. Dr Pelma Rajapakse of Griffith University was commissioned to write a report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies. In it she investigates some of the largest ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... winners of the inaugural Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) 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 ...

Australia's whistleblowing regime far from best-practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... improve a whistleblowing legal regime that is "patchy, limited and far from international best-practice." Griffith University professor and whistleblowing researcher A.J. Brown asked for improvements and changes to Part 9.4 AAA of the Corporations Act ...

Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... "catastrophic impact" on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according Michael E. Drew, Professor of Finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) State Technical ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... equities news, managing director of Rio Tinto Coal Australia Bill Champion is scheduled to deliver a speech at Griffith University. NEW YORK - Wall Street posted its first gain of the week after Spain announced severe budget cuts intended to convince ...

SPAA board appoints new member

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... principal of respected Queensland boutique accounting and consulting firm, CJ Baker & Associates, and mentor for Griffith University. Prior to this, Baker was manager of the audit and financial services division of PricewaterhouseCoopers and also of ...

Finsia announces award winners

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... E Drew, managing director of lifecycle strategies at QIC and professor of finance at the business school, Griffith University in Queensland. The award for most outstanding future leader went to Stephanie Charles, director of Credit Suisse. The award ...

AMP University Challenge winner named

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... and the options available to me as I pursue a career as a financial planner," said Walker. Zita White from Griffith University and a team of students from La Trobe University won second and third prizes respectively, which were $2,500 and $1,000 AMP ...

Finsia award nominees announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... Capital (ex Future Fund), Professor Michael Drew, Professor Stephen Gray, Queensland Investment Corporation and Griffith University, Richard Keary, FRM Australia, David Liddy, ex Bank of Queensland, Roger Montgomery, Montgomery Investment Management ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, said the idea that reconstruction would stimulate the Japanese economy was prematurely optimistic. "The amount of money the ...