Is our Gen Y ready for its first recession?
Associate Professor Annie Koh, dean of executive and professional education at SMU, feels the ongoing financial turmoil would ?sieve out the men from…
Local universities to help govt assess risks
Since last year, students at SMU have used the programme to analyse the supply chain for agricultural commodities.
Array of schemes to train top-notch maritime talent
Other organisations that conduct port, maritime and shipping courses and executive programmes in Singapore include the academic institutions ? namely…
Funds raised for SMU school
Three-quarters of a million dollars have been raised so far for the newly-established Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore…
STI sheds half its value in a year
Associate Professor Melvyn Teo, Director of the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at SMU commented that hedge funds will be holding quite a bit of cash…
Broadway fun in creative New York
Three Singapore students who went on a study trip to New York City have come back entranced by the magic of Broadway. The students were part of an…
Finance jobs: It's not all bleak
A year to go before he graduates and given the current crisis in the financial markets, SMU third-year accountancy student Huang Jian An is busy…
Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning programme collaborates with 3 universities
The Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Programme (RAHS) has been used by university students to analyse the supply chain for agricultural…
Undergraduates play policymakers for a day
Some 400 undergraduates from NUS, NTU and SMU sent in proposals on how to handle the challenge of a shrinking population in the first public policy…
Job-seekers in finance sector finding it tough
SMU student Tham Huan Ling has been offered a sales and trading job with an offshore bank, even though she will graduate only in April next year…