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Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... a great divide between how mums-and-dads invest as opposed to their insto counterparts. The findings were from a University of Queensland Business School study conducted since 2005 and surveyed 2,658 retail funds and 1,494 instos in the US with the premise ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

... of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the peak body for hedge funds, and conducted by the University of NSW Business School. According to the research, major super funds expect to increase their average allocations to hedge funds ...

Falkiner heads to Double Bay

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... Accounting from Macquarie University, is CPA qualified and holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Aviation from the University of China. But the buck will not stop with Killick and Chen. Falkiner added that the group was looking to appoint a 2IC to work ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... productivity. A review just released by the Australian Mathematics Teachers Association (AAMT) in conjunction with the University of New England (UNE) in NSW called Maths Why Not? has found that interest in mathematics is falling. It's washing through ...

Super funds commit 6pc to private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... private equity investment from 4.5 per cent to 6 per cent of total assets over a three year period, according to a University of New South Wales (UNSW) survey. Conducted by UNSW associate professor John Evans and sponsored by private equity fund manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... dragged down shares of a wide range of multinational companies, including IBM and United Technologies. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell sharply in April to its lowest level since 1982 ...

Governance before crisis

... corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday, University of Sydney academic Mike Rafferty said governance issues tended to emerge when a crisis or scandal has erupted, further stressing ...

Enron Part Two

... of Enron scale to happen again, in the wake of the sub-prime led market crisis. Professor Ira Solomon, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has argued that a massive overhaul of auditing practices is needed to prevent a recurrence of ...

Cromwell recruits ex-rugby manager

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... believe has significant potential for potential growth," said Cromwell. Howard holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and is currently undertaking an executive MBA from the ...

Christian Super avoids tobacco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... fund members wanted them to avoid the tobacco industry. A survey conducted by the Cancer Council of NSW and the University of Newcastle found 63 per cent of superannuation members wanted their funds to exclude investment into tobacco companies. Christian ...