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UniSuper chief wins exec of the year award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... panel of industry leaders and peers, received a $20,000 education grant to study at an internationally recognised business school. Chris Cuffe, chairman of the $29 billion higher education and research sector fund, UniSuper, was full of praise for his ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... Northwestern and Fordham universities tying for fifth place. However it's not as simple as attending the right US university, or 'school' as they call them over there. Only 20% of graduates entering the hedge fund sector went to one of the top five schools. ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Australia, to increase their alternatives exposure particularly into hedge funds. But Dr Ludovic Phalippou of the SaA-d Business School at the University of Oxford said achieving these returns in the real world can be difficult because private equity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
The Australian share market was expected to open stronger today, despite the absence of leads from offshore trading overnight. At 0702 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up 18 points at 4,614. In economics news on Tuesday, the ...

Retiree internet use hits 80 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... LinkedIn, 4 per cent use Twitter and none use MySpace. Age differences are more significant in frequency of use. Gen Z (school age kids) access social networking websites on average five times a day but retirees access them on average just once a day. ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... & implementation, UniSuper. Research submitted to the Cooper Super System Review by Gordon Mackenzie of the Australian School of Taxation and Business law at the University of New South Wales (ATAX), found that understanding the tax implications of investment ...

Merged planning group to meet new client needs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Three AMP accredited financial planning firms have combined to form a national business, Eluvia, providing a more complex suite of advice to SME and individual clients. When Sydney based President Financial Services came on the market in 2010, KRA Financial ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... it's because of the current alignment of the four planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. According to the Midlands School of Astrology, "The last time these four planets were in such close alignment was around 29th October 1910, over 100 years ago. ...

NGS Super merger too late for tax relief

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
NGS Super expects to complete a merger with UCSuper by early 2012, missing out on capital gains tax relief, having signed a memorandum of understanding to create a combined $4.4 billion fund. The optional capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over for capital ...

Fin services lend weight to East Timor education

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... priority as more than half of the state's adult population are illiterate, with the number higher among women. Worse, many school buildings were burnt down when Indonesian forces invaded East Timor in the '70s and late '90s. "It's really our way of saying ...