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ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The $1 billion on-balance sheet Australian National University investment fund has announced it is modifying its investment guidelines to ensure investments it holds in the future will "minimise social injury". However, ANU chancellor and former minister ...

ETF entrepreneur donates generously to uni

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Tuckwell and his wife Louise have donated $50 million to fund scholarships for undergraduates at the Australian National University. Under plans laid out in the largest donation ever made to Australian students, 25 Tuckwell Scholarships will be awarded ...

Ken Henry to join ASX board

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... also a director of National Australia Bank and chairman of the Institute of Public Policy at the Australian National University. "Ken's reputation and experience as an economist in Australia and overseas, and as a senior bureaucrat who has worked with ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... other 8% may be listening to the "Shadow RBA". According to the Australian Financial Review, "The Australian National University's so-called "shadow" Reserve Bank board urged the central bank to keep rates unchanged today. The group includes two former ...

Older Australians delaying retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... and approximately 27% drew on savings. The study was a collaborative effort, researched between Australian National University, AMP, Rice Warner Actuaries and National Seniors Australia. The report's authors are Dr Tim Higgins and Dr Steven Roberts from ...

ANU partners with CFA Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
CFA Institute has partnered with the Australian National University's Bachelor of Finance program so students qualifying for a major in Corporate Finance and Investment Management will receive recognition by the CFA. The CFA Institute said the degree ...

ANU down $100 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
The global sharemarket correction has cost the Australian National University (ANU) $100 million. The ANU vice-chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, said their portfolio is down about 8 per cent, but he added that they didn't need the money right now and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... morning, and Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens delivers the Sir Leslie Melville lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra on the subject of the RBA as lender of last resort. Also this morning, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... universities including Peking University, the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and the Australian National University. "As our first chief economist from a developing country, and an expert on economic development and particularly agriculture ...

Babcock & Brown launches DIF III

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... providers and overseas institutions. Besides Military Super and WA LGS, other investors were the Australian National University, Pinnacle Superannuation Fund and parent company, Babcock & Brown. The fund is a global assets fund targeting returns of more ...