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A great use of taxpayer’s money

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The associate professor of finance at UNSW, David Gallagher, has been doing a major study of performance leakage among Australian funds managers due to tax-unawareness. Gallagher applied for a Federal Government grant to support his work. Under the question on the form which asked about how the applicant’s project would advance the national interest, Gallagher … Read more

Attention, Frank Cicutto, attention

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Aberdeen Asset Management Australia’s boss, Charlie Macrae, has left us for London but he should have considered returning home if results of a competition run by Foreign Direct Investment magazine are anything to go by. While Frank ‘Positioning for Growth’ Cicutto famously dismissed it as having “been in permanent recession for 200 years”, Scotland has … Read more

Saving appeals to our better nature

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Behavioural finance, the examination of how willpower, concern for other people, limits on calculating ability, and biology influence economic behaviour is now well accepted in institutional investing. But the latest development in behavioural finance – neuroeconomics, which looks at how the study of the brain fits within this – is taking experimental economics to a … Read more

The fax behind CBA’s green bid

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Unbalanced got a press release from the Commonwealth Bank last month, informing us it would henceforth offer customers the choice of stopping hard-copy statements and receiving electronic records exclusively. We were told that if Which Bank laid out one year’s worth of customer statements end to end, the 175 million sheets of paper would stretch … Read more

The scourge of schizophrenia: how the Government and super funds can help

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In the second of a series of four roundtables on mental health and superannuation, the industry participants and mental health experts discussed the major problem of schizophrenia, the results of interventionist programs in mental health problems and the issues associated with death and total and permanent disability insurance. The roundtables have been sponsored by CommInsure … Read more

Giving first Australians a financial fair go

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Thirteen financial services organisations have combined forces to form the Indigenous Financial Services Network, a group aimed at implementing the recommendations of an 18-month study which concluded that Australia’s indigenous people were the most financially, as well as socially, excluded community in the nation. CATHERINE JAMES reports. IFSN was launched at the end of February … Read more

First Home Saver Accounts – the AIST view

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Home affordability is now a major issue facing Australians. Having “your own place”, whether owned or rented, is vital to young people’s sense of independence and self-sufficiency, and is fundamental to the security of young families. That sense of physical security, which many of us take for granted, is central to successful working and family … Read more

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