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Macq and UNSW do the maths

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop a faster mathematical method to calculate the risks of investing in highly complex finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
China's joint current account and capital account surpluses mean the current pace of economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, according to a study published in the Australian Economic Review. The report's author, Professor Yu Yongding, director-general ...

HESTA appoints three intl long-short managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
HESTA Super Fund has appointed Acadian Asset Management, AXA Rosenberg and AQR as global long-short managers with a total allocation of just under $300 million. The mandates represent one-tenth of their international equities strategic asset allocation ...

PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The wave of private equity (PE) investment stirring political concerns in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the US, has prompted Australian academics to attempt a review of how PE investments should be regulated in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
The Monash University Centre for Economics of Education and Training has produces a report funded by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum that has found that there are about 540,000 young Australians not in full-time work or learning. Of this number 330,000 ...

Joining a DB fund the ultimate choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The forced demise of defined benefit (DB) super because of fund consolidation and a changing workforce has unfairly cast DB funds as last century thinking. But that totally misses the point. Ann Byrne, Unisuper chief executive officer, said, "People ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
A leading Australian think tank has called for more interventionist government policy to ready us for the economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
The recently released Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey showed that about a half of business executives expect prices to increase in the fourth quarter of this year and all sectors except wholesaling expect a negative growth in profits. ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

It's not the glass ceiling. A new study has found that men are more likely to have a better lifestyle come retirement because they tend to save more and save earlier than women. The Mars versus Venus debate reared its ugly head once again at the latest ...