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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 ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Darn their goes my five minutes of fame! The Wall Street Journal also led me to a paper written ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Accountants in Australia and has held numerous education roles including dean, faculty of economics and business, University of Sydney and posts at around nine other universities worldwide. Wolnizer was awarded honours for service to higher education ...

ANU partners with CFA Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... ceremony with the Australian National University. The CFA Program Partner initiative was launched in 2006 with the University of Oxford being the inaugural partner. Currently, there are 135 CFA Program Partner institutions around the world, which includes ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... the Cooper Super System Review by Gordon Mackenzie of the Australian School of Taxation and Business law at the University of New South Wales (ATAX), found that understanding the tax implications of investment decisions at the time they are made could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... their third straight day of gains on Friday. The market was still down slightly for the week. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index rose to 74.3 in May, above analysts' estimates of 70. Concerns about higher petrol prices ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... lifted by surging gasoline prices and matching expectations. The market also shrugged off a better-than-expected University of Michigan consumer sentiment report. Earnings reports from upscale retailer Nordstrom and graphics chipmaker Nvidia came in ...

New SMSF course on offer

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund service provider Cavendish Superannuation has teamed up with the University of Adelaide to offer a three-day course next month explaining the complex area of self-managed funds. Cavendish self-managed super fund (SMSF) experts ...

ASX eyes merger alternatives

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... deal was first agreed. Professor Peter Swan from the School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, said a takeover could prove disastrous not just for ASX shareholders but the Australian financial services ...