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HESTA hires former Vanguard head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... head of fixed income for Asia Pacific at Vanguard from 2010 to 2017. Since then, Howard has held academic positions at Monash University and the University of Melbourne and has been a portfolio manager for treasury and investments at Medibank Private. ...

Rest appoints three investment specialists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... appointed to the Rest board investment committee effective 1 September 2020. Kapur is a professor of practice with the Monash Business School, a member of the School Executive Committee and concurrently director of the Monash Centre for Financial Studies. ...

LIC seeks conversion to ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... rare move, a listed investment company is looking to convert to an ETF in an attempt to close discount for investors. The Monash Absolute Investment Company (MA1) wants to restructure to an exchange traded managed fund (ETFMF) to re-set the market price ...

ESG investors overreact to negative news

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
New research from the Monash Centre for Financial Studies reveals ethical investors who overreact to negative environmental, social and governance (ESG) news spur falls in share prices and are better to wait before making trade decisions. The study ...

First State Super, CEFC back new bond

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... by BNP Paribas with ClimateWorks Australia, ISS ESG and The Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University. It seeks to use five possible climate change scenarios to identify companies likely to perform well in a world ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
A Monash University lecturer has pushed the case for a GST holiday, which he argues is the most effective way to generate "maximum economic bang for the government's buck". In an opinion piece for The Conversation, economics lecturer Isaac Gross argued ...

Future Fund board members reappointed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... is currently a director of Scentre Group, Myer Family Investments, the Australia-China Council and the General Sir John Monash Scholarship Foundation. Wilson has a background in finance, banking and medicine. She currently holds directorships at Transurban ...

ANU to help determine fate of SG increase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... approach to our work." Preston said modelling of how changes in the SG affect rates of voluntary saving will be provided by Monash University, while Curtin University will examine how the superannuation system affects pre-retirement behaviour. Critics ...

EQT bolsters board

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... of women in leadership, social justice advocacy and to the business community. She also has an honorary doctorate from Monash University, has been inducted into the Australian Property Hall of Fame, made an honorary life member of the Property Council ...

BetaShares calls for universal pension

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... Treasury as part of its consultation with market participants on the Retirement Income Review. In collaboration with the Monash Centre for Financial Studies at Monash University, BetaShares senior investment specialist Roger Cohen determined Australians ...