 Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015 Last week's Irish referendum for marriage equality may not seem to have much to do with superannuation, but in reality it has everything to do with it. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015 Super funds, or rather their trustee boards have a problem: where to stash or productively invest the huge wads of cash pouring through their doors each month. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015 The Australian government end last year released its first Gender Equality Scorecard and while the results are discouraging, a separate international report released a few months earlier by Credit Suisse showed that investors make more money investing ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014 Many years ago when I started work as a country school teacher students would often moan about how they thought it was unfair that I expected them to do the work I set them. Some would even threaten to lodge complaints to which I would say, 'fine, the ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014 The Future Fund was already Australia's most misunderstood fund even before it released its latest explanatory paper describing its long term investment philosophy and practices. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014 Superannuation is one of the Australian economy's major pillars and it is time its leaders stepped out from behind their abacuses and started leading, and the way this happens in an ideas-driven services industry is by speaking publicly and telling ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014 Has MySuper worked? Has it lowered fees, simplified superannuation products, lifted returns and made people better off? Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014 It's now a few weeks since Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chief David Murray handed down his interim report and already sectional advance troops have been spooked into defending their status quo. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014 The superannuation sector answered its critics with a smart, tight and well researched speech Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Super Funds of Australia (ASFA) delivered to what is arguably Australia's premier policymaker conference ... Read more |
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