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Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... most profitable firms in history, has died at the age of 86. Simons began his career as a mathematician, earning a mathematics degree from MIT in 1958 and a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1961 at the age of 23. After his doctorate, he briefly taught at MIT ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... become a psychologist and he graduated from the Hebrew University in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and mathematics. Kahneman went on to get his doctorate in psychology from the University of California and was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... annuities research." Dunnin isn't hanging his boots up altogether, however. In a previous life, Dunnin was a high school mathematics teacher. Having now retrained, he plans to return to the classroom, taking on teenagers and math and business studies ...

TAA urges active recruitment for industry sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... underemployed in the short term - that is, four to six months after graduating," he said. "Graduates of study areas such as mathematics, computing and information systems, accounting, business management, banking and finance, economics, and law had short-term ...

Advice firm targets teen financial literacy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JAN 2022
... and their moderators. Scifo says that the extent of financial literacy in the high school curriculum ends at simple mathematics - if taken at all. "It's not emotional. It's not contextualised adequately into their personal lives, and they're ...

Maths an unpopular subject with high schoolers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... far reaching," the paper said. "Participation in higher maths study is lower for girls than boys and performance in mathematics is lower in low socioeconomic (SES) communities than high SES communities. Hence school-level mathematics study may perpetual ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... financial advisory and software development services experience to Spatium Capital, and has an "affinity for physics and mathematics" which has influenced the creation of the investment manager's strategy. Moors on the other hand, boasts insolvency ...

Budget boosts female participation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... Security Statement will support new cadetships and apprenticeships for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The government will also create jobs, encourage entrepreneurialism, and ensure the safety of women at work and at ...

Future Fund appoints acting investment chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... management and portfolio construction. Sue holds a masters in psychology from Canterbury University and bachelor degrees in mathematics, computer Science and English literature.

Super smashes best-performing salaries list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... increases are being driven by the demand for specialised roles in the industry, the report said. Full-time workers in mathematics, statistics and information sciences were rewarded with a 44% salary increase over the period, earning $118,937 per annum ...
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