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Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... as health care and aged care. Vamos' comments were responding to a research paper prepared for the forum by Monash University professor Deborah Ralston. They also come after the government announced its Financial System Inquiry (FSI) response this week. ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... after, completing a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment and then a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Queensland. After travelling a bit, Sowerby eventually set about becoming a commodities trader and fired off around 100 ...

Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... experience into the firm." To complement his 25 years of experience, Carruthers holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in both the United Kingdom and Australia. The appointment is the first ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... The biennial Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award, worth $1 million, has been granted to Professor David Craik of The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Professor Marilyn Anderson of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts, overnight. Then again, Wall Street didn't miss much for aside from a refresher course on well, inflation ...

AMP offers Adviser Academy course via Griffith

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... has redesigned its Horizons adviser education program and is now offering its Adviser Academy course through Griffith University. Changes in the redesign of the course include: raising entry standards to a degree equivalent, provisioning for graduates ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... sign that the debate and public perception around the issue has significantly shifted since the Australian National University (ANU) caused national outrage when it decided to pull $16 million from resources companies. Since then, Local Government Super ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland Business School showed less than 0.3% of MySuper assets are within the agriculture sector as of 30 June 2014. ...

Blue Sky scratches head lice from portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... and eggs in a single, 10 minute treatment without the need for nit combing. The investment was also supported by the University of Melbourne, the Queensland Biotechnology Fund and Uniseed. The firm's deal with Dr. Reddy's Laboratories includes $84 million ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...