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Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... this week at the Superannuation and Social Purpose: Nation Building, Governance and Politics conference held at the University of Sydney. The conundrum is that while high exposure to equities and equity-like assets is expected to result in better long ...

AMP University Challenge winner named

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... accounts along with free FPA membership for a year. Of the 42 students that entered the competition, 40% were from the University of Melbourne. "The student response to the AMP University Challenge has exceeded our expectations. They have really embraced ...

Former Treasury Secretary joins NAB Board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... native wildlife. During his career, Henry has had key roles at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, New Zealand's University of Canterbury and acted as a senior adviser to Paul Keating. He has also served on the Reserve Bank board, the Board of Taxation ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... to his political background, Hewson was also a professor of economics, and head of the school of economics at the University of New South Wales and two years as Dean, Macquarie Graduate School of Management and professor of management at Macquarie University. ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... portfolio. "Doesn't it make sense to add a small part of your portfolio to volatility?" Moran asked. He presented University of Massachusetts figures showing how a portfolio with a 10% allocation to VIX futures was able to steady its performance through ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The University of Pennsylvania and New York University have been ranked the top universities for breaking into the US hedge funds industry. Global hedge funds are estimated to now be running $2 trillion worldwide. In Australia they run approximately ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... of only 0.1% annualised. And if sentiment is anything to go by, they're still loath to spend. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 63.7 in July -- to the lowest level since March 2009 -- from 71.5 in the previous ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... Queensland to make the point," he said, although it was not clear whether he may have been speaking tongue-in-cheek. University of Sydney tax law professor Michael Dirkis said interstate mergers can indeed trigger stamp duty events. "It's a disposal ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... alternatives exposure particularly into hedge funds. But Dr Ludovic Phalippou of the SaA-d Business School at the University of Oxford said achieving these returns in the real world can be difficult because private equity internal rates of return are ...

Govt $41m finance centre launches new projects

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... Superannuation, Bill Shorten, and Deputy Premier of NSW and Minister for Trade and Investment, Andrew Stoner, named the University of New South Wales as host for the $41 million centre. The centre will receive $12.1 million in funding over the next four ...

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