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Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... expectations for management of such risks and improving the quality of disclosures. University of Sydney Business School professor Christopher Wright agreed and said it is up to businesses to take action with new skills and frameworks. "As the world ...

ABPs alone won't meet retirement income covenant: Knox

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... cohorts to design products that offer the maximum possible retirement income. Australian National University associate professor Geoff Warren said figuring the number of cohorts will be a challenge for super funds. "I don't think it's going to ...

Older Australians overlooking age care costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... about the subject, while only 14% had prepared for the costs. National Seniors chief executive and director of research professor John McCallum said the figures are alarmingly low. "It is critical that aged care costs are built into later life financial ...

Maths an unpopular subject with high schoolers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... professions. The paper builds on earlier work from Flinders, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and Stanford's professor Keith Devlin. Actuaries Institute said it will develop a policy position statement and press federal and state governments ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... the University of Hong Kong and the Australian National University (where he earned his doctorate). He was a visiting professor in the MBA program of the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of NSW. A staunch protector of the environment ...

Fostering the ageing workforce

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... Australia must do more to dismantle the barriers related to health, care, training, discrimination and work conditions. Professor Marian Baird and her colleagues investigated strategies to support older workers and concluded that organisations need a ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Did trading desks perform better or worse when they were forced to work from home last year? That is the question UNSW Business school researchers sought to answer. A study by UNSW Business School associate professors Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James ...

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... role in recommending annuities, but face barriers in doing so. Senior research fellow Teagan Altschwager and associate professor of marketing Jody Evans say the "fee-for-service" nature of financial advice, the limitations on advisers' ability to add ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... vaccinated that it prevents the virus from spreading. Quoting Marylouise McLaws - University of New South Wales (NSW) UNSW Professor of Epidemiology, Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases - ABC News prints that, "She said it was difficult to identify ...

Does financial services have a problem with women?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... corporates is policies get lost if they are not competently reinforced," Beck says. Catharine Lumby, Macquarie University professor and principal of Catharine Lumby Associates, agrees that curbing harassment and discrimination is not as simple as creating ...