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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... shares shed 44 cents to $22.21. Education provider Navitas' full year profit is down 31 per cent after writedowns to its university division overshadowed stronger revenues. Its shares dropped 10 cents to $5.07. Meanwhile, online real estate giant REA ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... investments, which I took on." After finishing his schooling at Caulfield Grammar in Melbourne, Kirkham moved on to Melbourne University to study commerce. Upon graduating he took six months to do a trip through the US and Europe. "We got a car through ...

Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... and should be regulated as such, an economist and pension expert from the UK has warned. Dr Bernard Casey of Warwick University said stricter global capital requirements are seeing new organisations such as pension funds providing the capital traditionally ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Ferran, N. Moloney, J. G. Hill, and J. C. Coffee, Jr., The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Cambridge University Press,2012. 2 Unemployment figure based on June 2014 seasonally adjusted labour force numbers. Decline in GDP based on ...

Allan Gray Australian Equity Fund highly recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... AllianceBernstein in 2006. Before becoming a professional investor Marais was a theoretical physics researcher at Cambridge University. "Consistent with their contrarian philosophy and independent thought process, Allan Gray seeks to employ people from ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Born in a small village in South Australia, Crafter moved to Geelong as a child; and later studied statistics in the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. "I found statistics interesting; I liked the pure abstract nature of mathematics, but statistics ...

Senate report, a turning point for advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... referred extensively to the need to improve standards for financial advisers and asks that planners should have a relevant university degree, three years' experience and on-going professional development. It also asked that advisers who give personal ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of investor services Henry Capra

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... who didn't himself have the opportunity to get a higher education, Capra studied economics and accounting at Sydney University. Not quite sure what he wanted to do with his life, he thought accounting would give him a good grounding for a career in business. ...

7.5% in black and white

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... the fear mongering published by the ABC on 15 January. "Michael Pettis, professor of international finance at Peking University, believes growth rates might fall to as low as 3 or 4 per cent..."... and horror of horrors, Michael wasn't only predicting ...

MetLife Australia names new CFO

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Australian Society of CPA and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney and has completed an Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. ...