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Lowy-backed Assembly acquires childcare centres

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... placed for long-term growth having the benefit of bi-partisan government support. That support is driven by academic research which has highlighted the immediate and longer term social and economic benefits of childhood participation in formal early ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... take the leap of quantitative easing measures, the country was already heading in that direction. "While the academic research is not settled on the relative importance of different structural drivers, it is likely due to some combination of population ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... question if housing more assets in SMSFs is beneficial, Thorp said it warrants "close consideration" because academic research shows SMSF members: tend to be over-confident in their abilities, over-optimistic of their funds' performance, don't ...

Ardea IM announces research partnership

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
The $15 billion fixed income specialist has announced a new research partnership, set to strengthen its academic research capabilities to the benefit of clients. Ardea Investment Management has partnered with the University of Technology Sydney to create ...

Lack of transparency in ESG funds criticised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... managers tend to look at sustainability factors in terms of the risks they pose to a company's business model. Academic research supports the assertion that companies that follow strong ESG standards are more likely to outperform those that don't." ESG ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
New academic research says chief executives gain more power for strokes of luck, especially if the boards watching them have weak governance. University of North Carolina academic Turk Al-Sabah probed the question in recently published his research ...

ESG crisis returns overcooked: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
ESG funds tallied up record inflows and touted better-than-market returns in the COVID-19 downturn but new academic research says there is no evidence that ESG scores contributed anything beyond traditional models. In ESG Didn't Immunize Stocks Against ...

PC puts spotlight on lifecycle super products

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... taking into account members' thoughts, activities and behavioural responses, which is then layered against academic research. This is combined to get a sense of members' risk tolerance, Holzberger said. QSuper launched its first lifecycle product ...

FPEC chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... responsible for launching the Financial Planning Research Journal and establishing a research grant to foster academic research in financial planning. "In this volunteer role, Mark has guided the development of a world leading university curriculum for ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... Art buyers and investors pay female artists up to 50% less for their work compared to men on average, latest academic research has found. A study of more than a million art auction sales across 40 years found a 47.6% price gap between male and female ...
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