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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 ...

Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... deserve a special thank you for establishing a significant funding base for youth mental health," FGG chairman and University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson said. Among the fund's first investors were the Smith Family, Peter Scanlon's Scanlon ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
British American Tobacco has landed among Sydney University's top international shareholdings in emerging markets as a balance is being sought in the university's environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment framework. Sydney University recently ...

Afiniation adds weight to Citi fintech initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... Mobile Challenge program including: Google, Stone & Chalk, venture capital firm BlueChilli, The Committee for Sydney, University of Wollongong and Avoka. Citi's managing director of customer experience, Linda Duncombe, will be the keynote speaker at ...

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... are currently impediments before transferring people straight across to a product." Professor of Finance at Monash University, Deborah Ralston, said super funds will need more than one CIPR to cater for a range of retirement income needs. Investment ...