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Senate grills ASIC after it blocks 250,000 websites

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... the Senate Communications Committee tomorrow will be asking ASIC officials why websites such as the Melbourne Free University were blocked in April 2013 as part of the crackdown on investment frauds. The Committee was made aware of ASIC's mistake in ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... drivers could pay up to 70% of the extra; lower prices will soften that blow. More generally, says Lin Boqiang of Xiamen University, lower prices should support the government's efforts to reduce subsidies (it has already freed some gas prices, and electricity ...

Profile: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand chief executive Lee White

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... attended Balgowlah Boys High School and his passion for commerce led him to pursue economics and accounting at Macquarie University in Sydney. After graduation, White went straight into employment as an accountant at Coopers & Lybrand (which became PwC ...

Australian Catholic Super names new CIO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Guinea's public sector pension fund. Block has previously worked at FuturePlus Financial Services, WorkCover NSW and the University of New South Wales endowment fund. He will join ACSRF on 8 December, and there will be a two-week handover period before ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has awarded the 2015 FPEC academic research grants to academics from Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Recipients of the grants will be awarded $5,000 each to support the research ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... school in Geelong. She then moved to Melbourne and studied a degree in econometrics, majoring in statistics, with Monash University. After that, entering into the financial services industry was a "logical step." But having finished her studies right ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Before that she worked an economist and head of Greater China research at JP Morgan. She holds a PhD from Stanford University. Asia-Pacific head of ISG Jeffrey Johnson said, "It is great to be able to welcome Dr Wang to the team. We look forward to tapping ...

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... management firms outside Australia. The most represented universities among these globetrotting graduates were UNSW, University of Sydney and Macquarie University while CFA charter designations among these students are more popular than MBAs. Rounding ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... prediction by the end of the decade. The Economist cited a working paper by Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers of Harvard University, titled "Asiaphoria meets regression to the mean" which contends just that... that China's growth rate would regress "toward ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... slated to take part in a roundtable panel discussion at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at Sydney University. In equities news, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and Spotless have their annual general meetings scheduled. In Australia, the ...