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The myth of economies of scale: bigger is not necessarily better for super funds

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

It is received wisdom in the Australian superannuation industry that bigger is better. The theory goes that funds with more assets under management will benefit from economies of scale, because the costs of running a superannuation fund are largely fixed and do not change much, whether you are managing assets of A$500 million or $50 billion.

This...

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Copernicus' revolution and Galileo's vision: our changing view of the universe in pictures

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imageGalileo's sketches of the moon, showing its phases.Wikimedia/Galileo

It’s not a stretch to say the Copernican revolution fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. In antiquity people believed the Earth was the centre of the solar system and the universe, whereas now we know we are on just one of many planets...

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How students from non-English-speaking backgrounds learn to read and write in different ways

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imageWe need to adapt learning styles to suit those whose first language isn’t English. from www.shutterstock.com

Peter Dutton, the minister for immigration and border protection, made headlines recently after claiming that many refugees are illiterate.

Not only is this statement a misleading appropriation of statistics, it fails to address the...

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