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CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is building on its Sydney innovation lab by launching a second lab in Hong Kong and unveiling plans to expand to London later this year. CBA group executive institutional banking and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's ...

Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
An Australian superannuation fund hosting your next pub trivia night could soon be a reality if it is not already happening, according to experts in behavioural science. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about unpredictable consequences as the best talent disappears to the opaque family office sector. Ibbotson ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... liquidity, though, are more complex, and necessitate a more nuanced understanding of what "alternatives" actually are. "The human brain likes to put things into buckets," says Blue Sky Alternative Investments chief investment officer Alexander McNab ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... known back then - and he's stuck to the same principles ever since. Moore likes to keep his portfolios very focused - "My brain starts to shut down when I have to look at tons of stocks," he says - and then he holds stocks for a long time. "It takes ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget after a positive reception to his second try. Sure ...

Embrace rising retirement age, says futurist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
The rising retirement age is nothing to fear because in a service economy we are not going to die of over-physical work, according to IBISWorld chairman and 'futurist' Phil Ruthven AM. Ruthven told delegates at the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. They will be joined by The Body-Brain Performance Institute executive performance coach Paul Taylor, communication and performance expert Amanda Gore, co-founder ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The human brain is biologically incapable of processing the reams of data it receives, and the more data we try to process without help, the more bad decision we will make. That was the message of evolutionary biologist Rebecca Costa's speech that closed ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of disappointing Chinese trade data and escalating concern over Ukraine. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the lower open was "a no-brainer". "There's just a raft of negative factors just weighing ...