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Laminar fund wins award for innovation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... will generate the need to re-evaluate the core relationship between fund managers, advisers and their clients. "With Australia being the largest Funds Under Management market in the Asia-Pacific and third largest in the world, it is in a position to ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) has appointed two senior executives from the financial services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior ...

Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... these cases of fraud from re-occurring. There is a heightened need for legislative changes to protect investors." While Australia's regulatory and oversight measures for containing fraud are generally robust and compare favourably on international basis ...

Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... for Superannuation and who is now senior advisor for superannuation and pensions at Citi, said we have to recognise Australia's superannuation system is one of the most administratively complex in the world. Linda Elkins, executive general manager, Colonial ...

CSIRO to study super spending habits

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... September last year with several industry bodies and funds coming on board including Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, Financial Services Council and Challenger, BT and CBUS," Professor ...

Superannuation Research Cluster makes two appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... behaviour in areas of saving, investment and retirement outcomes. Cluster leader and executive director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Deborah Ralston, said that both these people have the enthusiasm and right skills for the job. ...

Australian giving grows by $248 million

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... Office's publication Taxation Statistics 2010-11. The Charities Aid Foundation's 2012 World Giving Index has also ranked Australia the world's most generous country ahead of Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the US. The ranking is based on Australia having ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... Over 60" - the cluster will bring together researchers from Monash and Griffith Universities, the University of Western Australia and the University of Warwick in the UK. The Superannuation Research Cluster will try to determine the optimal forms of ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... stringent market integrity rules, aimed at improving transparency and deterring market manipulation. Dark trading in Australia was reported by ASIC to be around 17% of dollar volume up until May this year. However, ASIC's rule changes in that month have ...

Infrastructure debt 'not that scary': AusSuper chair

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... the money is used to fund infrastructure projects. Speaking at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies' 'Funding Australia's Future' forum in Sydney, Ridout said that state governments are well-placed to begin infrastructure projects, which can later ...