Economics/finance/investment
Professor Talal Yassine OAM: business leader and philanthropist
“Macquarie made me who I am today and set me on a career and life path I hadn’t even imagined,” he says. As the Managing Director and Founder of the superannuation and investment firm, Crescent Wealth, Talal has overseen remarkable growth after just five years. He is also Director of the Crescent Foundation, a charity which advocates for refugee education, and is Patron of the Cre...
$8 million awarded in ARC Funding towards research into hearing, language and neuroscience
No fewer than 22 Macquarie research projects have received funding in the latest ARC Major Grants round, amounting to $8, 447, 451 in total. The Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham, made the announcement this morning for funding commencing in 2018. Separated by category, Macquarie was successful in receiving funding for Discovery Projects (DP; $5, 709,...
Claire Mackay: investment high-flyer and stakeholder guru
As an owner and principal at Quantum Financial, a family-owned private wealth management firm, Macquarie Law School alumna Claire Mackay (BComm ’00 LLB ’01) is one of the most highly regarded young advisers in the Australian investment industry. Listed in Australia’s Top Ten Financial Planners, Claire has been recognised by the IFA as 2014 Investment Adviser and 2015 Financial Adviser...
How ethnicity and religion can influence financial habit
New research has found that people with a religious or ethnic background are more likely to save money, quelling the long-held belief that income and financial proficiency are the main determinates of an individual’s ability to save. Alongside a team of international researchers, Associate Professor Chris Baumann of Macquarie University’s Department of Marketing and Management studied low, ...
Research Spotlight: Vijaya Nagarajan
Associate Professor Vijaya Nagarajan (BEcon/LLB '83) has been a researcher at Macquarie Law School for the past 16 years, and is exploring ways of creating a regulatory framework that will economically empower women in Pacific countries. “Women are half the world’s population,” she says. “Yet, right now in many Pacific countries, they hold less than 10 per cent of senior jobs and pa...
Changes on campus
With the campus master plan well underway, new construction and major refurbishment projects are reshaping the University before our eyes. The latest large-scale project will see building names and roads renamed, new signage installed and for the first time, buildings will have a street address, with roads and avenues named accordingly. Some former Macquarie students recently returned to...