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New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... making a difference. Where superannuation is concerned we will be applying our skills in big data analytics, financial mathematics, real options, risk modeling, social science and behavioural economics." CSIRO research theme leader Alan Dormer said. ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... a 120-man team comprising a mixture of PhD post-grads and professors from a diverse range of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, climatology, actuarial science and - quite incredibly - extragalactic astrophysics. "Just as scientists are trying ...

ASIC unveils primary school teaching package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... students learn about saving, spending, donating and investing by applying these principles to real life. In a Year 6 mathematics unit called 'It's Raining Cats and Dogs...and Chickens', for example, students learn about equivalent fractions, decimals ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... an investment research consultant in its Australian Investment business. Trollip, who holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian Fixed Interest Manager Research Team from Melville Jessup ...

Fixed Income Investment course launched for planners

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... accredited by the Financial Planning Association (FPA), consists of 13 sessions on topics including product descriptions, mathematics and formulae, bonds, hybrids, floating rate notes, as well as a session on how fixed income works in a balanced portfolio. ...

RBF appoints CIO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... 2009. In 2010 he undertook a consultancy assignment for Acorn Capital Ltd. He holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in applied mathematics and is currently studying towards an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management. "Dr Lundy will lead ...

Govt to ramp up FinLit in national school curriculum

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... literacy is already well established in current school curriculum across multiple age levels within elements of the mathematics, literacy and SOSE (study of society and the environment) syllabus. However, it has been "lacking in national consistency ...

Matrix appoints practice development manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... who holds a Masters of Business Administration from AGSM, a PhD in Applied Finance from ANU and both a masters and mathematics degree from Tianjin University, China.

The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... being equal, increasing short-term interest rates are normally accompanied by a rise in longer-term yields. The simple mathematics of the yield curve governs the relationship between short- and long-term interest rates.' This was true. At the time, the ...

Uni students get Praemium help

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... market data system (p-Desktop). Praemium unveiled arrangements linking its services with the University's School of Mathematics - incorporating the two systems into the curriculum for Optimisation of Financial Mathematics, a core unit for the undergraduate ...