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Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... institutions to divest their fossil fuel holdings on moral grounds. In the US students, faculty and elected officials are asking college endowments and municipal and state pension funds to limit or divest their holdings in fossil fuel companies in response ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... revealed that investment scale is not a strong factor for determining investment outcomes. The 2012 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund Institute's Study of Endowments analysed the returns of more ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big Ben Bernanke. He'll sort these out when he speaks before the Bard College at Simon's Rock Commencement, Great Barrington, Massachusetts on "Economic Prospects for the Long Run". Hope it's not the ...

EU-wide ban on CDS pointless

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Academic research from Imperial College found that Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads are a poor proxy for sovereign default risk, suggesting that the EU-wide ban on naked CDS positions is unlikely to achieve its aims. Lara Cathcart, senior lecturer ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... the candidates," said World Bank. A US national of Korean descent, Dr. Jim Yong Kim is currently president of Dartmouth College, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organisation ...

Genetics not education drives investor behaviour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... results are contained in a study by Henrik Cronqvist, associate professor of financial economics at the Claremont McKenna College, and Stephen Siegel, visiting assistant professor of finance at Arizona State University, just published in the Social Science ...

CommInsure appoints UHG as service partner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... practice management systems, would also help speed up insurance claims. "medEbridge, supported by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, will revolutionise the way insurance companies and doctors communicate, allowing rapid and secure ...

Fund managers out-invest school kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... concerned," he said. The national winner of game two was Raphael Tsakrios, a 16-year old year 11 student at Casuarina Senior College in the Northern Territory, who ended the game with a 21% portfolio return. "Much of my success in game two would have ...

US Girl Scouts launch financial literacy merit badge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... learning the basics about money and then going deeper into financial issues as girls get older so by the time they go to college they are learning about topics such as how to create budgets for living and surviving financially on their own. The merit ...

AMP senior shuffle

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... of equity research at ABN AMRO Asset Management in London and as a non-executive investment adviser to both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Medical Foundation in London. Additionally, Brown was head of European equity research at Credit Suisse ...