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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 ...

REST appoints exec from SSFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), The Trust Company, MLC and St George Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Law from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Business from UTS.

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... for super. Before the super journey began Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Applied Communications) from the University of Western Sydney in 1991. Although trained as a journalist and professional writer, she wasn't interested in that career and ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... we can reduce the costs of adultery, why can't we reduce the cost of banking?", Professor Henry Ergas, from Monash University, said during the presentation of the research report 'Competition in financial services'. Ergas was referring to online dating ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... $8.2 billion (US$6.8 billion) from hedge funds since the beginning of 2015. Professor Stephen Brown from the New York University Stern School of Business has been studying hedge funds for close to four decades and has even testified before the House ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... understand their clients' and, in turn, help them make better investment decisions, with the help of a scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. The financial crisis was characterised by investors taking money out of the market at the worst ...