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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 ...

FPA honours top advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... the final unit of the CFP Certification Program, went to John Dacker from Shadforth Financial Group. As for the FPA University Student of the Year, Mary Hadgis from the University of South Australia won in recognition of academic excellence and commitment ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Latest research from Macquarie University uncovers flaws in the use of balanced scorecards to determine remuneration. It comes as Australia's biggest bank bosses face the Royal Commission. According to researchers from the university's Applied ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... continue to lift and shorter duration assets will perform better. Not as passive Talis Putnins, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, says he sees no evidence of ETFs eroding market efficiency. A paper he ...

Zurich partners for future of work and insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
Zurich has entered a three-year study partnership with Oxford University to develop a means of ensuring workers are effectively protected and supported in an increasingly fragmented labour market. Working with the Smith School of Enterprise and the ...