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Back to school on finance

BlackRock's chief executive Laurence Fink and his wife Lori have donated US$10 million to UCLA to fund academic research that could help explain the changing world of finance post sub-prime. Fink is an alumnus of UCLA and is currently the chair of UCLA's ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... that underpins the markets themselves, warn Pearson and Macdonald. Reinforcing his concerns, Macdonald cited academic research showing "that only a small proportion of lent securities are used to cover directional short sales." "The more regulations ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... bit of time working in places like the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), and doing some academic research," he said. Gray will embark on several academic projects pertaining to the capital markets, including working closely with the ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... working part-time or under-employed. About 37 per cent of part-time workers seek more work according to other academic research. About a half of those who stopped schooling at year 10 were not involved with work or study by the following May although ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

... their superannuation and 19 per cent on income from other assets. "There is a lot of industry, Government and academic research around the need to save for retirement, including ours, but the message just does not get through. It's a bit like health ...

MIR wins back its five star ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... investment structure, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, supported by extensive academic research, and executed by well-resourced quantitative and qualitative investment teams. Our focus on this occasion was the qualitative ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

Investors should not abandon a common sense approach to managing their portfolio after new academic research found that many claims about the superior portfolio construction of fund managers can not be statistically tested or verified. Steve Christie ...

Index for the smart, hedge for the stupid

... there is an almost endless supply of wealthy stupid people". The award-winning money manager drew on several academic research to suggest that investors are better off investing in passive or index funds to gain long term returns instead of hedge funds ...

S&P rates Advance's MIR managed funds as very strong.

... successful execution of MIR's disciplined investment approach, characterised by a successful combination of academic research and behavioural finance concepts, differentiates MIR from the majority of other managers," says Gullo. Advance recently appointed ...

US regulator warned of hedge fund risks

... analytical tools that are typically beyond the reach of smaller investors and their advisers. After reviewing recent academic research on the reported performance of hedge funds, the ICI also concluded many overstated return and significantly understated ...
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