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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... Wasn't it only four days ago that we received news of a strong jump in US consumer confidence? The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment rose to 76 in June -- its highest level since January 2008 - from 73.6 in May. ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... level in eight months. Now we found the reason for last week's increase in consumer confidence. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 76 in June from 73.6 in the previous month - the highest since January 2008. These ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... reports data on the 116 major pension plans sponsored by the 50 states in the US. Authors Robert Novy-Marx from the University of Chicago and Joshua Rauh from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University found from the data that the present ...

Haddock appointed chairman of ACSRF

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... Auspace Colonial First State Private Capital. Haddock holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company ...

Super savings run out well before retirement: survey

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... Australia) by Professor Roger Wilkins from the Melbourne Institute's Faculty of Business and Economics, part of The University of Melbourne, shows that the projected life expectancy at retirement for a 55-59 year old single male is 17 years but their ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... president for Citigroup Property Investors in Hong Kong and London. Budiselik holds a bachelor of economics from the University of Western Australia and a graduate diploma in applied finance and investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. ...

RSPT is govt trying to pick winners: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... height of a boom, said a leading tax academic. Professor Neil Warren from the Australian School of Taxation at the University of New South Wales was reported in the UNSW Australian School of Business' Knowledge podcast that part of the problem with the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... economic news on Friday, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Glenn Stevens, delivers an address at the University of Southern Queensland and Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce and Industry Economic Conditions Forum in Toowoomba. The Australian ...

Borland exits Investec for Credit Suisse

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... tax professional at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Borland completed her bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance at University of Sydney and holds a diploma in Financial Planning.

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Southern Methodist University, and as director of the Financial Markets Institute and professor of finance at the University of Iowa. He is a frequent presenter and author, whose work has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal ...