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Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... and there will plenty of interesting reading when the ASIC-regulated standards finally come in. Even those funds with ethical or environmentally-focused options, while they screen out holdings in tobacco, armaments and uranium mining, rarely have a policy ...

Former UniSuper CEO joins UCA FM board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... Former UniSuper chief executive Terry McCredden has been appointed a non-executive director at Uniting Church affiliated ethical investor, UCA Funds Management. UCA Funds Group chairperson Dick Carter said of the appointment: "We are delighted to have ...

MySuper authorisations creep up to 78

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... CommBank/CFS, Westpac/BT, NAB/MLC, ANZ/OnePath, IOOF, Aon, Suncorp and Tidswell. Some retail funds such as Australian Ethical Investment, Bendigo Bank and Virgin Super are meanwhile using the advent of MySuper as an opportunity to increase their footprint ...

Two awards for Australian Ethical

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
Australian Ethical Investment has won two business awards - a Banksia and Green Lifestyle award for outstanding commitment to ethics, the environment and financial performance. The first award from the Banksia Foundation, which is a not-for-profit that ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... attracted investment from individual, family office and institutional investors. NRMA Motoring & Services and Australian Ethical Investments were among the key investors. The SBB is divided into two tranches - a senior tranche accounting for $7.5 million ...

ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The $1 billion on-balance sheet Australian National University investment fund has announced it is modifying its investment guidelines to ensure investments it holds in the future will "minimise social injury". However, ANU chancellor and former minister ...

Australian Ethical MySuper option approved

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
Australian Ethical has been granted approval for its MySuper product by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The fund, which becomes the 74th to gain APRA approval, will use its existing Balanced fund as its MySuper option. It will ...

Accountant gets 6 years jail for promoting tax avoidance scheme

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
A Gold Coast accountant has been sentenced to 6 years jail for promoting a tax avoidance scheme to clients after the case was successfully brought forward by Project Wickenby, a cross-agency Government taskforce fighting against tax evasion, avoidance ...

Funds market climbs 12.7% to $1.6tr

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
... managers. Rainmaker said the five fastest growing asset classes over the year were active extension, international equities, ethical/SRI, combined equities and hedge funds. But showing how quickly the market dynamics can stall for previously hot sectors ...

Australian Ethical pays out $300k in redundancies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
ASX-listed retail super fund Australian Ethical will make a number of employees redundant following a "substantial reduction" of its Canberra office. In a release published on the ASX website, Australian Ethical chief executive Phil Vernon said, "The ...