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TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... Bonderman graduated from the University of Washington in 1963 with a major in Russian studies and went on to Harvard Law School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1966. While at Harvard, he won a fellowship that took him to Egypt and the Middle East ...

Three universities ditch financial planning courses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... It comes as Viridian Financial Group co-founder Brett Arnol said with HSC results in New South Wales released next week, school leavers should consider a career in financial planning. "The industry has undergone significant transformation in recent years ...

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... term through to 2026. Before joining, he was professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also previously served as chair of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission and was chair ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... accreditation of work-related training at the federal level; and work to reverse declining literacy and numeracy skills among school students, ensuring disadvantaged children can meet the minimum standards necessary to enable learning in later life. ...

Lack of action on menopause driving gender inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... stepping down from leadership roles. About 14% said they'd left the workforce early because of menopause; Macquarie Business School estimates this costs Australian companies about $10 billion a year in terms of recruitment and productivity. Meantime ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... a little more patience when it comes to cutting the policy rate." Geoffrey Kingston from Macquarie University Business School said it has been another month of mixed signals. "On the one hand, inflation remained too high, propped up by high public-sector ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... decisions going forward. "We know that major economies are all facing the same challenge. They've got to kick off the old school energy grid and switch to a different sort of energy, storage, and usage process," Jacques said. "What are the opportunities ...

Director pleads guilty to 'dishonestly' obtaining near $1m

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... exchange trades. McCabe also misappropriated the investors' funds for his own benefits, including rental payments, private school fees and various credit card purchases. The Roseville-based director was charged with eight counts of dishonestly obtaining ...

Traditional economic indicators have 'tanked': Economist

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... line with a recession, and it has been in line with a recession for about 12 months. So, this goes to the point that old school indicators do not work anymore in the current cycle that we're in." Mousina pointed to the yield curve, which has been ...

VFMC appoints deputy chair

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... World Vision Australia and head of digital banking at ANZ. Rogers is also a non-executive director of Melbourne Business School, and co-founder and chief executive of Saas company Dutyof.care Solutions, trading as Oho. VFMC chair Lisa Gay welcomed her ...