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Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... across different age groups. The intergenerational wealth gap has widened particularly since 2012, according to the researchers including Hugh Miller, Ramona Meyricke and Laura Dixie who have Phds in statistics, financial economics and physics respectively. ...

Men gamble ERS payment away: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... uptick. It dropped down to 30 points below normal levels in April but regained those 30 points by the start of June. The researchers said that total spending per person is now only 2% below normal levels and that discretionary spending got an extra boost ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... then the concept has found wide use in financial journalism as well as research house reports. However, while some researchers have found active share as a valuable predictor of unlisted funds' performance, others have questioned its limited utility ...

Advice group research head departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... group's research leadership is re-shuffled, with senior research analyst John Stamatopoulos also departing. The two researchers leave Centrepoint after less than two years, having both joined in late 2018. In a note, Centrepoint Alliance group executive ...

Australians hate complexity, not annuities: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... purchase." The new research indicates that is only partially true. Consumers do struggle to understand annuities. The researchers found that demand would be much higher if annuity options were presented in a simplified manner. Altschwager and associate ...

Why COVID-19 could boost ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... we as humans, have such a hard time grappling with these risks? Why didn't we prepare for a pandemic, even when researchers laid out the problem for us?" Streur said. "Why aren't we dealing effectively with climate change, even though researchers ...

Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... the Paris climate agreement." "UniSuper is the default superannuation fund for Australia's academics, scientists, researchers and university employees. As such it should be at the vanguard of climate policy," Market Forces said. Noting the fund only ...

Industry fund awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... will be managed by Robeco's Quantitative Equities team, consisting of more than 40 portfolio manager and quantitative researchers dedicated to quantitative investing, research and model development. Robeco has $332 billion in assets under management. ...

Pengana makes executive hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... business development team and the firm's international equities investment team to build and enhance relationships with researchers, consultants, financial advisers and institutional investors. Pengana International Equities chief investment officer ...

ISA slams ANU research as SG debate rears its head again

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... facilitate self-insurance against risks, noting that this could lead to over-saving with its own issues and costs," the researchers said. "Further, our analysis does not account for assets outside of superannuation that could significantly lower the ...