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Independent directors not always a good thing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... industry aligned directors are likely to bring more value after the GFC, said an academic expert. RenA(C)e Adams, professor of finance at UQ Business School and a contributing author to SimCorp StrategyLab's recently launched book, Understanding the ...

Legalsuper hires investment expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... experience at several fund managers and deep financial market insights from academic research over six years as Associate Professor of Finance at the Melbourne Business School," said Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of legalsuper. "We see this appointment ...

More pain to come for councils

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... have derivatives in their portfolios and not just toxic CDOs, warns an investment academic. Jerry Parwada, associate professor of finance at the University of New South Wales and an expert on managed funds and investor behaviour, said councils which ...

Working mothers caught in tax snafu

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... economic spotlight now on income-tax distribution in Australia is turning into a blowtorch. University of Sydney professor of public economics Patricia Apps has released research, reported in today's Sydney Morning Herald, that shows women earning low ...

QSuper appoints investment committee

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... implementing new investment products and services as well as overseeing QSuper's investment strategy. Drew is currently a professor of finance at the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. "We are going to become a regulated super fund. The Trustees ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... concludes today. Also in Perth, an American Chamber of Commerce business briefing will host Derek Shearer Chevalier, a professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles. The Mining & Energy NSW exhibition continues. Yesterday ...

Back to school on finance

... greatest resource, our students at UCLA Anderson, who will become the finance leaders of the future," said Richard Roll, professor of finance and faculty director of the centre. The Finks' $10 million endowment is the largest individual gift to UCLA ...

Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... But we focus on these hard measures because we can and so Australian Unity and the report's author, Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University, hope their Wellbeing Index will fill the gap. Despite overall happiness being quite stable ...

MM over-diversification a myth: Russell

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... up to 100 or more mandates on their books, far eclipsing the numbers held by traditional multi-managers. Ron Bird, professor of finance at the University of Technology in Sydney however dismissed the idea of having high numbers of managers. "If you put ...

Investing by 2020

... those which will integrate machine-based systems with seat-of-the-pants checks and balances, said Stephen Brown, professor of Finance at NYU and one of the investment experts Liem interviewed for the book. According to another interviewee, Bridgewater ...