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NAB and ABS employees arrested for insider trading fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... executive leader of markets enforcement Chris Savundra said. The two suspects are 25 and 26 years old and would have met at university and would have taken the decision "to enter this corrupt relationship." The investigation is still ongoing, but Savundra ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... fee disclosure statements and the exclusion of general advice from the conflicted remuneration provision. But Monash University associate professor Paul Latimer said that "the financial planning industry should embrace the best interests duty and its ...

Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... funds, one new domestic avenue could involve a "rebirth of the securitisation market". Referencing research by Monash University economist Rodney Maddock, Brogden said: "We will have so much money available that we look for very long-term, very predictable ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... have annual general meetings. And Rio Tinto's head of iron ore, Andrew Harding, is to speak at a conference at the University of WA. In Australia, the market on Wednesday had a flat session as investors supported mining stocks, offsetting falls among ...

TT International adds two to investment team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... in Hong Kong. He had regional responsibility for Australia, New Zealand and Greater China. Robertson joins from the University Superannuation Scheme in the UK where he was a senior portfolio manager focused on Asia for the pension scheme's US$5 billion ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... fun." Atkin returned to Melbourne when he was seven and has remained there ever since. As an undergraduate at Melbourne University he specialised in history and politics, before moving on to do a masters at La Trobe. "I focused on the 1950s as a period ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs) solve the problem of longevity risk, they are "bloody expensive." ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... Planning Association (FPA) has announced the two winners of the inaugural Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) university research grants. A team from Griffith University and a consortium of academics from Griffith University, University of Southern ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... which puts it among the 10 professions most likely to be computerised in the next 10-20 years, according to Oxford University's Oxford Martin Program research into the impacts of future technology. "The trend is clear: computers increasingly challenge ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... some time, Ripoll was ready for another career change and left his full time job to study business at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). "I had always been interested in the political process and in the impact that government decisions have ...