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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 ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... more times than that in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott Donald said. "People say it's the reason super is expensive, it's the reason for poor performance," Donald continued. ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... the need to engage appropriately with members in order to better understand what they want." Co-author of the study, University of Sydney Professor Susan Thorp, said the research provides insights into the wants and needs of super fund members, and how ...

FPA awards open to submissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... Year, FPA Financial Planner AFP of the Year, and Future2 Community Service awards, this year the FPA has introduced a University Student of the Year award. FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said the new award "celebrates the hard work and achievements ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... years," he recalls, "and it's up $700 billion or 30% over the last 5 years. It's moving very quickly." Consider Yale University as an extreme case in point: the venerated institution had a 68% exposure to alternative investments (comprised primarily ...