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Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
Governments, asset owners and corporations will need to work together in a stronger partnership to achieve a sustainable investment future, new research from Towers Watson has found. After surveying 22 asset managers in conjunction with Oxford University ...

Legg Mason chief replaced to staunch investor outflow

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... firm." Board member Peltz has been pushing for change at the company. Earlier this year, Legg Mason announced a new capital plan that refinanced and reduced the debt and introduced a share-buyback program.

Mid-level PE an outstanding opportunity

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
This year will be an excellent vintage for private equity investments, said former Hyperion Asset Management founder and managing director, Dr Manny Pohl. Outstanding opportunities exist at the mid-level of the market, said Pohl, whose new private equity ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... towards strengthening that singleness: Banking Union. Last night, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso outlined a plan for the ECB to become the Eurozone's banking supervisor - an initial step towards unifying the region's banks (estimated ...

Investment management hit by downturn

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
A cocktail of market blows since the GFC which led super funds to reduce costs by going passive, amalgamate through economies-of-scale, and the internalisation of portfolio management by larger funds - plus reduced availability of capital - has meant ...

Sunsuper creates new product division

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Sunsuper has created a new product division and appointed Andrew Nicholson to the executive role of general manager, product to its Brisbane office. The newly created division will look after a range of super, insurance, financial advice and retirement ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... world's two biggest economies. The euro, which surged on Friday after the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a bond-buying plan to help under-pressure nations, eased slightly in early Asian exchanges on Monday. Tokyo ended flat, dipping 2.28 points ...

Aus Sup to manage 30% of own funds in 5 years

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
AustralianSuper has unveiled plans to manage up to 30% of its funds internally by 2017. Australia's largest super fund said in a statement today, that it has plans to build an internal management team as the next initiative to further reduce costs and ...

COIN software FoFA ready: Rubik

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
ASX listed Rubik Financial Limited said today that its updated financial planning software, COIN version 4.0 is compliant with the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. New functions have been included that allow users to meet the fee disclosure ...

Wilson HTM awarded damages

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... approached several rival firms," he said. Lawyers for listed broker Wilson HTM had previously alleged that Ord Minnett hatched a plan to take over Wilson, by poaching key staff. In Final submissions chief council for Wilson HTM Rod Smith said that evidence ...