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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... from the University of California and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, with his famed Prospect Theory cited.

Mayfair 101 calls for senate inquiry into ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... suspicions have been confirmed that ASIC's investigation into Mayfair 101 was prompted by an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory which ASIC failed to verify." "After three and a half years, numerous legal proceedings, and tens of thousands of pages ...

Super planning remains top adviser focus this EOFY: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023
... of public offer super funds will have cut-off dates around accepting contributions. "While you can get a contribution in theory right up to June 30, a lot of products will say, 'we won't accept it and we can't guarantee that we'll accept ...

Absolute-return bond funds fail ambitious returns: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... absolute-return bond managers will not always provide positive absolute returns when equity markets are underperforming. In theory, absolute-return bond strategies are more skill-oriented where managers seek to deliver consistent returns regardless of ...

Super fund advice needs more guardrails: Conference

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... Advice Review proposals would highly benefit superannuation fund members, but many are convinced that this only works in theory. The Quality of Advice Review chair Michelle Levy stuck to her guns at the recent SMSFA Conference, forging ahead with the ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... pension funds, as sourced from the Pension & Investment pensions fund tracker survey. Rainmaker designed the test on the theory that "that Democrat-aligned 'blue' states may be more likely to accept ESG investment principles, in contrast to Republican-aligned ...

Evidence of poor LRBA advice: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
... investments for members, having the potential to magnify both gains and losses from fluctuations in asset prices. While in theory LRBAs limit recourse of lenders to a particular asset in the event of a default, in practice they can affect assets beyond ...

Research explores advice industry's maturation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2022
... Survey results also indicated that financial advisers are becoming more familiar with the value of accessing their body of theory. All acknowledged the increasing importance of theory, levels of education and continuing professional development reflecting ...

Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... paper, Vanguard outlined the benefits of index investing over the long term, a rationale grounded in the zero-sum game theory, the effect of costs, and the difficulty of finding persistent outperformance among active managers. The report stated that ...

Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... infrastructure. It's also the only kind of de-facto carbon tax we have in this country," Holden explains. "However, in theory you could have a petrol excise that averaged at about 44 cents but ranges between - for example - zero cents and 90 cents depending ...
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