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[November 2008]
- In honour of Mr Sim
Tanah Merah Country Club's fundraising golf tournament raised $777,100 – topped up to $800,000 by the club, for the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU, named after the club's late founding chairman.
Tanah Merah Country Club Newsmagazine
- The new social(-ly conscious) scene
Adjunct marketing faculty Karen Ho is one of the new generation of Scuppies (Socially Conscious Upwardly-Mobile Person). She tries to get students interested in environmental issues and has got them to research on ways to market sustainable resources as an academic project.
Her World
[30 November 2008]
- Thailand at a crossroads
Ho Kwon Ping, chairman of Singapore Management University, writes that the awakening of the rural class threatens age-old institutions.
The Straits Times
[29 November 2008]
- Firms and households resilient
Professor Annie Koh, dean of Executive and Professional Education at SMU, said that factors that could push up non-performing loans include a higher jobless rate as well as a weak resale property market, where homeowners threaten to default on loans because they cannot sell their properties.
TODAY
[28 November 2008]
- Modernising agriculture in China: for better or for worse?
Assistant Professor of Sociology Forrest Zhang from the School of Social Sciences discusses the benefits and challenges of large-scale modernisation and specialisation of rural industries in China. Part of his article is based on joint-research conducted with Assistant Professor of Political Science John Donaldson.
Lianhe Zaobao
[25 November 2008]
- Funding of training fees upped to 70%
At the graduation of 15 private bankers from the SMU-Standard Chartered Bank advanced diploma in private banking programme, MAS announced enhanced incentives to encourage financial institutions to invest in training talent during the current downturn.
The Straits Times
- Training subsidies for the financial sector increase
The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the increase in subsidies under its Financial Training Scheme at the SMU-Standard Chartered Bank Advanced Diploma in Private Banking graduation ceremony.
Lianhe Zaobao
- MAS boosts grants to financial institutions for training
“Institutions need to continue to invest in talent development even in the current market downturn,” said MAS executive director Ng Nam Sin at the graduation ceremony yesterday for bankers who completed the Singapore Management University – Standard Chartered Bank advanced diploma in private banking.
The Business Times
- Will its associates follow suit?
Analysts felt it was not a must for these companies to follow their parent. “There is no one-size-fits-all solution; these companies are in different industries, face different challenges and report to their own boards,” said Professor Annie Koh, dean of executive and professional education at SMU.
TODAY
Channel NewsAsia
- Academics applaud civil service salary revisions
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Assistant Professor Kenneth Huang feels that the pay cuts of top civil servants and ministers was not unexpected and showed that the government understood the economic difficulties the population is currently facing.
Lianhe Zaobao
[24 November 2008]
- Effects of increased regulation of insurance companies
Professor Olivia S. Mitchell from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and SMU Practice Associate Professor Benedict Koh, both co-principal investigators of the Centre for Silver Security, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU, comment on the various issues investors should be aware of when buying investment-linked insurance policies.
Channel NewsAsia
- Beware of radical change
Assistant Professors John A. Donaldson and Forrest Q. Zhang contributed a commentary on China's agrarian revolution based on their fieldwork in the rural areas of Yunnan and Shandong provinces in China.
The Straits Times
- Why an issue at all?
SMU law undergraduate Amsani Yusli writes that voters past and present have shown they will cast votes for good leadership, not along racial lines.
TODAY
- A leg up for SMEs going global
IE Singapore's annual Singapore International 100 (SI 100) Ranking returned this year with a new category on Top Internationalising SMEs. The ranking is organised by IE Singapore with SMU as one of the collaborative parites.
The Business Times
[22 November 2008]
- Planning for retirement set to become tougher
Planning for retirement is going to become more tricky in the light of the financial crisis, said experts at a seminar on The Future Of Silver Security: Coping With Crisis And Uncertainty – the first of a series of events to kick off the new Centre for Silver Security at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU.
The Straits Times
- No GST cut, but expect cash handouts
Assistant Professor Davin Chor commented that we can probably expect fiscal policy to remain expansionary until the world economy starts to show signs of recovery, hopefully towards the end of 2009.
The Straits Times
- The longest crisis ever?
Professor Augustine Tan explained, in a 1999 article, that Singapore is Southeast Asia's entrepot and it is easy to see why Singapore suffered when the financially-crippled Asian countries drastically reduced their imports.
The Straits Times
- Reserved judgment
A campaign by a group of SMU undergraduates to stop people from using tissue packs to reserve hawker centre seats garnered 57 letters from the public, with 36 saying the practice is not rude.
The Straits Times
- Insurance cost could rise with over-regulation
Issues of longevity risk and annuity got an airing at yesterday's conference titled “The Future of Silver Security: Coping with Crisis and Uncertainty” – organised by the Centre for Silver Security, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, at the Singapore Management University.
The
Business
Times
- When food beckons
Five months ago, Tay Eu Yen left Drew and Napier to manage The Butter Factory. To satiate her still burning passion for law, the Oxford university master's graduate in legal research will begin a tenure as an assistant professor of law at SMU.
The Business Times
[21 November 2008]
- Why some give more...
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan from the SMU added that governments and businesses can work together to ensure that during job retrenchments, elderly or minority workers are not discriminated against
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TODAY
- Finding Opportunities amidst Crisis
Seven third and final-year SMU undergraduates from the School of Information Systems and School of Economics discuss their employment concerns and alternatives amidst the current recession.
Frontline, Channel 8
[20 November 2008]
- Unsafe food products in China
Assistant Professor Forrest Zhang contributed a commentary on the connection between unsafe food and the industrialisation of China's agriculture and food system.
Lianhe Zaobao
- SGX moves to grow pool of trading reps
SGX has partners with the Securities Association of Singapore and the Financial Training Institute at SMU to introduce training for brokers and remisiers.
The Business Times
- 3 SGX initiatives to expand workforce, upgrade skills
Among the initiatives is a move to raise the standard and professionalism of existing trading representatives and new entrants. The SGX and the Securities Association of Singapore will launch a new programme for remisiers' professional development, together with the Financial Training Institute at SMU. The first intake will start next February.
The Straits Times
[19 November 2008]
[17 November 2008]
- The growth of Islamic banking
Associate Professor Andrew White explains the principles of Islamic banking and why the financial product is not confined to Muslims alone.
Channel NewsAsia
- Hedge Fund investments
Associate Professor Melvyn Teo, Director of the BNP Paribus Hedge Fund Centre at SMU explains the risks involved in investing in hedge funds and what a retail investor should look out for when considering such an investment.
Channel NewsAsia
- What charity really means
Jason Zhou, third-year SMU economics undergraduate disagrees with some people who believe that overseas community projects are either a form of self-gratification or an absolute waste of money. Eef Gerard Van Emmerik, who has a place to read law at SMU, believes that charity is best served at home, for the sake of the country and rootedness.
The Straits Times
- Business programmes continues to receive demand
SMU director of undergraduate admissions, Alan Goh, says that the demand and enthusiasm for business programmes are unlikely to diminish because of the financial downturn. When designing our programmes, we look at a broad-based, multi-skill curriculum.
Lianhe Zaobao
- Job competition for business graduates high
SMU director of career services, Ruth Chiang, says that students are encouraged to be more pro-active in looking for jobs as there may not be multiple jobs waiting for them.
Lianhe Zaobao
- A royal time in the Middle East
For a group of 36 students from the SMU on a business study mission (BSM) to the UAE and Bahrain in April this year, their trip was made all the more glamorous by a personal invitation to dinner – at a sheikh's palace, no less.
The Business Times
[16 November 2008]
- No job? Start a business
SMU students Eugene Yeo and Dararith Saing spotted a business opportunity while doing community work in Cambodia and roped in schoolmate Alex Tay to clinch exclusive distributorship for four brands of solar-control films from the United States, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.
The Straits Times
- Is this rude?
Diners are dismissing a group of SMU students' campaign against using tissue paper packets to reserve seats.
The Straits Times
[15 November 2008]
- Are we ready to be colour blind?
SMU law academic Eugene Tan notes that the reactions of many in the online community to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's recent comments that it was possible for Singapore to see a non-Chinese prime minister one day, seem to suggest they are almost racially blind.
The Straits Times
[14 November 2008]
- Tata Crucible - The Campus Quiz
Anirban Datta Gupta and Bhavya Khanna from the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at SMU beat 150 teams to clinch the championship in the Tata Crucible. They won the Quiz the second time round and will go on to compete with other teams in India.
Channel NewsAsia
- Y&R bags SMU
Young & Rubicam Singapore has won SMU's account for the university's 2009 undergraduate admissions campaign.
Marketing Interactive
[13 November 2008]
- How manufacturing waste enters food products
Assistant Professor of Sociology Forrest Zhang looks at the long process and various channels fresh milk goes into before entering market shelves as diary products.
Lianhe Zaobao
- Obama: The Next Challenge
SMU Associate Professor Andrew White and Assistant Professor Ilya Farber comment on the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States.
Channel NewsAsia
[12 November 2008]
[11 November 2008]
- Dress-free advantage?
Writer says that “SMU students are some of the most extroverted and creative”.
The Straits Times
- Nothing like a financial downturn...
Business schools remain optimistic despite the tough economic outlook. Ms Doris Sohmen-Pao, director of the Master of Business Administration programme at SMU said, “Skills such as leadership, strategic management and finance will remain evergreen and relevant to any profit organisation across any industry. They will be needed whether there is a financial crisis or not.”
TODAY
[10 November 2008]
- Excellent proximity to India
SMU student Udai Joshi from the School of Information Systems and with a second major in finance hopes to either enter IT, business consulting or the technology arm of the financial services industry.
Times of India
- Unicorns clinch win for blogger
SMU undergraduate Ephraim Loy praised the primary school category winner of the inaugural George Yeo Blog Competition where he is the co-organiser.
my paper
- My right to die
He Zongying, 24, is a final-year business management student at the SMU writes: I favour a strictly regulated process involving physicians, counsellors, and family members assessing the right to die on a case-by-case basis.
The Straits Times
- Seat taken? Tissue can't be an issue
The students are hoping to encourage patrons to tell others that the seat is occupied, rather than have diners face the tissues. But it was not all smooth-sailing for the freshmen at the SMU.
The Straits Times
- Banking still the promised land for young
JobsFactory polled more than 4,800 graduates and students from the NUS, NTU and SMU in its third annual Employers of Choice Survey. Although Singapore Airlines was ranked as the top private employer of choice this year, financial institutions still featured strongly in the poll.
The Straits Times
- Stretching $ in uncertain times
Third year business undergraduate Marilyn Tan says she sets aside part of her allowance in her bank account each month to reduce the urge to spend excessively. The Business Times
- A slimmer turkey for Christmas?
Practice Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Michael Benoliel at SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business, said banks need to regain “public legitimacy (by) doing the right thing the public will approve of” during the year-end festive celebrations.
TODAY
[9 November 2008]
- Petition nation
SMU law lecturer Eugene Tan, noted that decision-makers here, while not dismissive of them, do not use petitions as a guide to governance.
The Straits Times
- When times are tough…go indulge
SMU's Associate Professor Seshan Ramaswami said this is not atypical. Spending patterns during past recessions have shown that indulgence products do not fare that badly.
The Straits Times
[8 November 2008]
- Capitalism needs a new culture
Businessman and SMU chairman Ho Kwon Ping believes East Asia should forge its own form of neo-Confucian capitalism that is communitarian in ethos.
The Straits Times
- A tale of two Central banks
Dr Peter Nicholas Kriz, Senior Lecturer of Economics at SMU, hopes that governments will not interpret the current financial crisis as a problem of leveraged capital and make the mistake of over-regulating the financial industry.
TODAY
[7 November 2008]
- Does youth matter?
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan, a law lecturer at SMU, says age does not matter to Singaporeans, as long as it doesn't impede the candidate's ability to do the job well. The Straits Times
- Me in the “Me-Business”
The new “Me-Business” model consists of a company sitting at the bottom tip of an inverted pyramid of customers, according to Dr Andreas Weigend, the former chief scientist at Amazon.com who spoke at the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series at SMU.
MIS Asia
[6 November 2008]
- American elections
SMU Associate Professor Andrew White discusses the transitional challenges for President-elect Barack Obama.
Channel NewsAsia
- American elections
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan discusses what Singaporeans think the new US president-elect will affect their lives on a TalkBack programme.
938LIVE
- SMU faculty and students discuss US elections
SMU Wee Kim Wee Centre organised a special lunch event at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium where faculty and students interested in the US elections, gathered to watch the 'live' broadcast of the election results. Experts and academics were invited to discuss the results of the elections with students.
Lianhe Zaobao
[5 November 2008]
- America decides
Assistant Professor John Donaldson took part in a post-election discussion on Obama's win for the presidency.
Channel 8
- Obama as US president
SMU Assistant Professors Ilya Farber and John Donaldson share their views on the US elections.
omy.sg
[4 November 2008]
- Cultural differences explain job cuts, pay slash
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour Michael Benoliel commented that in the Confucian mindset, the right thing to do is to share the burden because there's that sense of collective responsibility whereas in the West, it's more about individual survival.
The Business Times
[3 November 2008]
- Going green
SMU President Professor Howard Hunter says that in the long term, solar energy offers the best possibilities for Singapore. In the near term, simple conservation methods can be effective.
The Business Times
- A cultural divide? While the West axes jobs, Asia cuts pay
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour Michael Benoliel commented that in the Confucian mindset, the right thing to do is to share the burden because there's that sense of collective responsibility whereas in the West, it's more about individual survival.
Reuters
[2 November 2008]
- America decides
Associate Professor Andrew White commented on incumbent US President George W Bush's term in the White House.
Channel NewsAsia
- Promoting a non-dogmatic learning environment
‘An unconventional MBA for unconventional minds' is the catchy slogan of SMU's brand new MBA, a 12-month programme launched just this year, along with a part-time MBA which takes 16 months.
The Sunday Times (Colombo)
- NUS versus NTU: Looking beyond the rankings
NTU journalism alumni Mavis Toh observed that SMU entered the scene in 2000 with an aggressive marketing campaign portraying itself as the ‘hip' and ‘vibrant' school where classes are interactive and students think outside the box.
The Straits Times
- The secret to netting customers on the web
Dr Andreas Weigend – the expert who revamped Amazon's sales tactics – gave a talk on the personal touch of “Me-business” at SMU as part of the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series.
The Straits Times
- S'pore will see more political openness: PM
Final-year SMU student and president of the Students Association Andrew Wong said if youth have a greater sense of political ownership, it could spark more interest among them on political issues, instead of being concerned only about examinations, scholarships or jobs.
The Straits Times
- Hearty buzz at Speakers' Corner
Analysts – such as Assistant Professor Eugene Tan – commented that the saga (hot-button issue of structured financial products), complete with anguished stories, struck a ‘responsive chord' with the people.
The Straits Times
- Babes get high on speed
In a New Paper interview with a group of women who love Formula One racing, SMU student Denyse Leong, 21, gives her take on who will win the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The New Paper
[1 November 2008]
- Obama's image, not message, clicks with S'pore youth
SMU law student Elycia Koh has also been swept up by the international phenomenon known as Obamamania, commenting that the fact that he is from a minority group and young but dares to stand up to challenge the establishment is inspiring.
The Straits Times
- You own my genes?
In his doctoral research at MIT in 2006, SMU's Assistant Professor Kenneth Huang confirmed statistically that gene patents have quelled gene research, especially in the private sector and particularly in the US.
The Straits Times
- 'Leave money for kids but in secret'
SMU Assistant Professor Chung Wai Keung agreed that leaving kids an inheritance might spoil them. He pointed out that such fat inheritances contribute to social inequality in society.
The New Paper
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