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FinLit teachers package released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... corporate law. The resource materials will be incorporated into core school curriculum subjects, including English and mathematics, and across all years from Kindergarten to Year 10. Senator Sherry said a teacher training program will be rolled out to ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian Mathematics Teachers Association (AAMT) in conjunction with the University of New England (UNE) in NSW called Maths Why Not? has ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... his nine-year tenure at GMO, Gray held the position of chief investment officer at Sunsuper. He received a PhD in mathematics from the University of New South Wales in 1968.

Financial sector holds gains: Suncorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... the scope, but as a result of the merger, we've managed to employ people like Vladimir Kazokov, an engineering and mathematics academic, which we probably couldn't attract before," he said. Himbury said no decision had been made regarding a new brand ...

APRA appoints new head of research

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... Scholar at Cornell University, where she earned a PhD in Management. She had earlier obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (Honours) from the University of Adelaide. She is currently associate professor of finance at the University of California ...

Comm Foundation partners with teachers on FinLit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation is partnering with Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) to jointly run financial literacy professional development workshops for teachers. The Foundation has a long history of being involved with financial ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... three to nine, beginning in 2008. The program will embed financial literacy programs into existing subjects such as mathematics, with possible penetration into English as well, as one of the key problems with financial literacy was, according to chairman ...

Macq and UNSW do the maths

... finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers from the UNSW's ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS). Doug Moss, division director of the bank's Quantitative Applications Division ...

BlackRock and IMCA award scholarship

... current investment management and portfolio construction issues, a rigorous refresher course on relevant analytical mathematics and, not least, a great chance to interact with industry peers," said Callinan. "Looking back, I am surprised that so much ...

BGI welcomes fixed income chief

... investment requirements in fixed income," said Peter Knez, global head of fixed income. Carmody has a PhD in Pure Mathematics from Cambridge University. Michelle Baltazar