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IFM director wins prestigious award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... use the scholarship to complete a Masters Degree in organisational leadership in conjunction with the Melbourne Business School, London Business School and the Kellogg School of Management. "The scholarship reflects upon Michael's experience and accomplishments ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... Stock Exchange goes through, despite the concessions announced yesterday, experts warned. Professor Peter Swan from the School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, who is a vocal critic of the deal, called ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... needs to be done in the area. Evans, deputy director of the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation at the UNSW Australian School of Business, is critical of the government for 'waiting for a disaster to happen' when it comes to the current retirement ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... be a move back to an equilibrium over time, that the current extremes will settle," he said. Conlon, however, joins the school of fund managers that are concerned about inflationary threats and bad policy calls dampening current consensus on China's ...

Maritime gives members a work out

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
Maritime Super has launched an online education program called 'the gym', joining the growing number of super funds eager to help their members know more about how to manage their savings. The gym is designed to make members 'financially fit' according ...

Trustees call to scrap MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
Two prominent superannuation industry experts have argued that MySuper should be axed, saying it will only worsen member complacency and completely fails to tackle the two major issues in super - engagement and adequacy. David Galbally QC, chairman ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors are more likely ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... performance of a country's stockmarket. According to a study in "Triumph of the Optimists" by three academics at the London School of Business, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has won its first Institutional $30 million Global Resources mandate from Non-Government Schools Super (NGS). The mandate, designed to meet NGS' fund objectives, will focus on the drivers and benefits ...