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ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A New York University professor believes at the very least the ASX should use blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... analysis to the global community." CEPAR is collaborating with the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and Netspar at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), to launch INPARR. The research office of Willis ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... scarcity; food security; and health care. With the help of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the City University of New York, UBS is helping PGGM hone its universe of 650-700 companies it believes are having a positive impact on the ...

Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... disability or illness. The research conducted in partnership with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, surveyed more than 11,000 people in 11 countries to find out how aware people are of risk, why and how they ...

ACFS head departs to Vic government

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... areas of financial services." Auster said she looked forward to maintaining her association with the centre and Monash University in an adjunct capacity. Monash University adjunct professor Rodney Maddock will serve as acting director while a search ...

CSC and Infratil back student accommodation

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... is showing its hand as an emerging asset class with two large investors closing a deal with the Australian National University (ANU) this week. ANU has awarded both the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) and New Zealand-based infrastructure ...

EQT appoints non-executive director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... Management, a director of Australian Life Insurance Group and is a member of the Finance Committee of Queens College (University of Melbourne) and a member of the Foundation Committee of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Previously he was managing director ...

SMSF advisers face demanding year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... either through the association or continue your higher education through the graduate certificate in SMSF advice at the University of Adelaide or Kaplan Professional. And we're the only association that has an SMSF audit specialisation." George said ...

Japanese pension fund continues ESG commitment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... CalPERS, the State Board of Administration of Florida, that State of Wisconsin Investment Board, The Regents of the University of California, as well as Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The UK's Universities Superannuation Scheme and Legal and ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... glamour and excitement she perceived on trading floors that attracted Bouch to financial services. "My first role out of university was at AMP. I'd also had a little stint working in stockbroking so I had this view in the background that this was the ...