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Nudging pre-retirees has 'little effect'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... use 'nudging' to help encourage members to engage more with their retirement savings, however new research from Yale University in the US has found the practice doesn't work as well as initially thought. Yale University professor James Choi's first set ...

Chief economist update: V for vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... by former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale University healthcare equity expert Marcella Nunez-Smith." For sure and for certain, the task force would be looking at countries that ...

Yale returns 3.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... return, YEF's assets reduced this year to A$33 billion due to the A$1.3 billion it paid out in distributions to Yale University. YEF is one of Yale University's major revenue sources accounting for one third of its budget. "Endowment distributions to ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... years," he recalls, "and it's up $700 billion or 30% over the last 5 years. It's moving very quickly." Consider Yale University as an extreme case in point: the venerated institution had a 68% exposure to alternative investments (comprised primarily ...

Mercer grows ESG team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... recognised as a Rising Star of Corporate Governance in 2009 by the Millstein Centre for Corporate Governance at Yale University. Mercer Partner and head of Mercer's Responsible Investments for Asia Pacific, Helga Birgden, said: "Implementing sustainable ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... market. The biggest endowment funds were found to be Harvard University with US$30.4 billion in assets, followed by Yale University with US$19.3 billion, University of Texas System with US$18.3 billion, and Stanford University and Princeton University ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... after surging from $7 in March 2009, the quickest recovery since at least 1900, according to data from S&P and Yale University's Robert Shiller compiled by Bloomberg. The gap between projected 12-month profits and average earnings over the last 10 years ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... last year. Data like these are just a stone's throw away from calls for a double-dip. And right on cue, we have Yale University economist Robert Schiller saying just that. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Noted economist Robert Shiller said Wednesday ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... time to sell (or buy). And this goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Only ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night, saying that the S&P 500 would need to sink another 27 per cent to reach the average ...
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