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FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

New study on precious metal hedge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
New research has taken a fresh look at the often-debated topic of how precious metals act as a hedge and/or diversifier in equity portfolios. Jose Arreola Hernandez from Rennes School of Business in France and Sang Hoon Kang and Seong-Min Yoon from ...

Super fund welcomes industry veteran to trustee board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
State Super has announced the appointment of an industry veteran to the trustee board of SAS Trustee Corporation. Carol Austin has over 30 years experience in the industry. She is currently a non-executive director at HSBC Bank Australia and the Grattan ...

Financial literacy in females continues to lag

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
Women are falling behind in almost all aspects of financial literacy and by considerable measure, according to the latest HILDA survey. For the latest study, University of Melbourne researchers administered a five-point financial literacy test, assessing ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... regarding economic conditions conducted monthly by Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC) and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MI). The WBC-MI consumer sentiment index is derived from the average of Australian consumers' responses ...

Superannuation Research Cluster makes two appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... $9 million research program. Kassenboehmer is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Her role will focus on financial decision-making, financial literacy and cognitive decline with ageing. ...

HSBC Bank hires Contango director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... at the Tasmanian Public Finance Corporation and a member of the Advisory Board to the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She has also held roles at BHP, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Rothschild ...

Innovation index ranks finance and insurance second

... wholesale trade sector. The index was the outcome of a joint study by IBM Australia and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, which looked at the level of innovation across 13 industry categories over ...

Afternoon market wrap: All ordinaries gain ground

... recorded in the country in nine years. According to the Westpac Banking Corporation and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, consumer sentiment is at its highest since July 1994. The banking sector had mixed returns in trading ...

Australians continue shift to property investment: report

... option, according to the March quarterly report on saving trends carried out by ING and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. The report said that over 32 per cent of households would invest new savings in real estate in the ...
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