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More pain to come for councils

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... portfolios and not just toxic CDOs, warns an investment academic. Jerry Parwada, associate professor of finance at the University of New South Wales and an expert on managed funds and investor behaviour, said councils which invest in derivatives could ...

SMSF in-house asset rules and disclosure flawed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... detailed investment strategy. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Adelaide, University of NSW law academic Gordon Cooper welcomed news that the ATO would work closely with SMSF trustees on in-house asset ...

State Super appoints chief executive

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... of the group of closed NSW public sector superannuation schemes. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Melbourne University, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA) and a Master ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

... Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the peak body for hedge funds, and conducted by the University of NSW Business School. According to the research, major super funds expect to increase their average allocations to hedge ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... productivity. A review just released by the Australian Mathematics Teachers Association (AAMT) in conjunction with the University of New England (UNE) in NSW called Maths Why Not? has found that interest in mathematics is falling. It's washing through ...

Christian Super avoids tobacco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... super fund members wanted them to avoid the tobacco industry. A survey conducted by the Cancer Council of NSW and the University of Newcastle found 63 per cent of superannuation members wanted their funds to exclude investment into tobacco companies. ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... fairly value them or what the risks were inside them," said Martin Gold from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wollongong. Gold recently explored the issue in his research paper Reform of Investment Organisation in Australia's Local ...

AUI to enter Qld mortgages market

... finance (NSW) and has worked with National Australia Bank. Dickson has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern Queensland and is a Senior Fellow of the Australian Institute of Bankers. Michelle Baltazar

A third of over 55s will never retire: Citibank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... 11 per cent in November 2006. Professor Sol Encel, honorary research associate at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of NSW, said, "Whilst many Australians have good intentions to work during retirement, it is, in most cases, an unreal expectation. ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... Australia's current account deficit, according to Fariborz Moshirian, professor of finance in the Faculty of Business at the University of NSW. Regardless of China's situation, the Asian Development Bank has already created a mechanism to establish a ...