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AFS hires Unsworth as regional manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Australian Financial Services (AFS) has hired former KBC Asset Management executive, Meaghan Unsworth as regional manager for New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory. Unsworth previously worked at Macquarie, Count, Colonial First State and ...

Liontamer appoints Aus GM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Liontamer Investments appointed former Fidelity business development manager, Meaghan Unsworth, to general manager of Australia. Unsworth worked at Fidelity as head of adviser business development for three years, and prior to that, worked at Colonial ...

Super funds commit 6pc to private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... investment from 4.5 per cent to 6 per cent of total assets over a three year period, according to a University of New South Wales (UNSW) survey. Conducted by UNSW associate professor John Evans and sponsored by private equity fund manager Adveq Management ...

Economic round-up: dust off the bear suit

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
Since 2003 we've been enjoying a period of astonishingly unswerving and powerful market returns, however there is more and more talk among market analysts that it could be time to get that bear suit dry-cleaned ready for another wear. Accrording to ...

Macq and UNSW do the maths

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop a faster mathematical method to calculate the risks of investing in highly complex finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers ...

Russell adds two to insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... portfolio investment research and developing investor solutions. Dr Warren was recently a postdoctoral fellow at the AGSM at UNSW researching asset pricing and its application in various areas. He has also spent 17 years working in financial markets ...

Design menus to encourage proper choices: MLC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... and Leon Tisdell, asset consultant, both with MLC Implemented Consulting, wrote in a research paper presented to the recent UNSW Superannuation Researchers Colloquium, that the way humans are designed to think about and react to choice explains much ...

Investors don't use timeframes when choosing options: FuturePlus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
... options. The full results of the study were presented by Livanas to the Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers, held at the UNSW Centre for Pensions and Superannuation.

Super tax concessions cost more than they save: Greens

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... thinking to supporting affluent rather than average or low income Australians is because, argues the report, ASFA briefed the UNSW researchers it commissioned to ascertain what is a reasonable retirement income. "It is interesting to note that the purposes ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... from the research was that the respondents considered corporate governance as a higher priority than historical returns. The UNSW's Associate Professor John Evans said, "I think when they say governance they also mean transparency because with a lot ...