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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

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... early childhood education is about 20 per cent of the group average. The World Economic Forum rates our science and mathematics education 29th behind the likes of India and the Czech Republic.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... cent of companies had problems recruiting in the IT sector and about 19 per cent had problems finding graduates in mathematics, statistics and science. Today Australia will continue talks with China on removing foreign equity restrictions on the legal ...

Financial Standard welcomes chief economist

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... sector, Peter Bell has joined Financial Standard as head of investment research and chief economist. With degrees in mathematics, statistics and economics, Bell's career has spanned an array of functions, beginning as a treasury analyst for a finance ...