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Young shy away from joining advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... educational content to those needs. "We need to provide more than one point of entry to the advice industry because the usual university points of entry are too low," Fox said. He added that there is a need for "balance between bringing people in through ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... still capitalising on...greed and fear. But the more respected professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Blinder, in his opinion piece on the Wall Street Journal wrote: "If ...

ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The $1 billion on-balance sheet Australian National University investment fund has announced it is modifying its investment guidelines to ensure investments it holds in the future will "minimise social injury". However, ANU chancellor and former minister ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... scientific study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney and colleagues at New York University and Yale's School of Medicine that found people aged over 65 are more likely ...

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... fact, recommended funds tend to perform worse than those which have not been recommended, a research by the Oxford University SaA-d Business School found. The investigation used survey data from US consultants with a combined share of 91% of the US investment ...

Australian giving grows by $248 million

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... according to an August report published by The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The Tax Deductible Giving in 2010-2011 report shows Australians gave a total of $2.21 billion in the ...

Tyndall AM picks up new risk head of risk from Russell

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... Analysts also cited a disappointing 76.8 reading on consumer sentiment in September issued by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan, down from the 82.1 reading in August. LONDON - Europe's leading stock markets closed broadly flat as traders ...

Fund member admin in spotlight at super forum

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... of the way many super funds operate. Among the speakers will be Robert Leeson, professor of economics from Stanford University in California, Kyle Ringrose, head of investment operations at QSuper, and Pierre Jond, managing director at BNP Paribas, Australia ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... The CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster has been funded jointly with $3 million coming from CSIRO, $3m from university partners led by Monash University and another $3m from industry partners and government agencies. Aimed at addressing two ...