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Saving for the kids' textbooks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
Investment bonds are making a comeback as the vehicle of choice to boost children's school savings. According to statistics from research house Plan for Life, the investment bond market segment is continuing to grow with more than $8 billion in funds ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... pertaining to the capital markets, including working closely with the Centre for Capital Markets Dysfunctionality at the London School of Economics, Toulouse University and University of Technology Sydney. Looking ahead, Gray hopes to spend time giving ...

NGS to welcome new chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
The $3 billion Non-Government School (NGS) Super fund is considering prospective chief executives next week after former head Colin McGuinness, who transformed the fund, resigned last month. Interim chief executive John McCrory said he expects the board ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... boost to education-productivity policy may however require a bit more than simplistic gimmickry about just giving high school students access to a computer, access they already have in abundance. Maybe we should instead be asking what to do with those ...

AMP grants $100,000 to Future2

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... Financial Success, aims to develop financial and life skills amongst Year 10 to 12 girls at a Queensland community access school. Meanwhile the Victorian grant has been awarded to Access Mildura, with the support of the FPA Sunraysia Chapter, to purchase ...

The new government: what it means

... eligible parents will get a 50 per cent refund each year for up to $750 of education expenses for each child attending primary school and for up to $1,500 for those attending highschool. And addressing housing affordability issues, people aged 18 or ...

Ambachtsheer receives Outstanding Industry Contribution Award

... Industry Award at the 2007 European Pension Fund Awards held in Vienna last week. Ambachtsheer, an adjunct professor at Rotman School, beat ten nominees for the award, which was voted on by readers of Investments & Pensions Europe, a London-based pension ...

Corp super applies ESG screen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... David Blood and former US vice president, Al Gore. Meanwhile Darren Lee, academic at the University of Queensland Business School, said using ESG factors in the investment management process would not negatively affect investment performance. "Rest assured ...

AFS kicks off new education program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) will conduct its first business school program this month, with the initial two-day program kicking off in Melbourne on October 25. AFS chief executive Peter Daly said the school will explore and challenge current ...

APRA appoints new head of research

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... associate professor of finance at the University of California Davis. Ellis has also worked at the Australian Graduate School of Management as a senior lecturer in finance and at Macquarie Bank as a quantitative analyst in foreign exchange derivatives. ...