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Statewide appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
South Australian private sector super fund, Statewide Superannuation Trust has appointed Nicholas Begakis as chair. Begakis has been a director at Statewide Superannuation Trust for almost two years. He holds several other board positions including ...

Big Sky to aid BHP staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... Big Sky Financial Solutions plans to provide general and personal financial advice to those members of its parent credit union affected by BHP Billiton mine closures. Paul Evans, Big Sky Financial Solutions director, said the financial planning division ...

AMP Banking taps Cuscal ATM network

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
AMP Banking customers will continue to receive access to fee-free ATMs, despite the new Direct Charging rules that will come into effect in March, after the bank signed a deal with Cuscal, owner of the rediATM network. AMP Banking, which doesn't have ...

UK coalition pushes responsible investment cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... create a "sustainable" financial system. The statement, which is signed by Treasury Select Committee chair John McFall, Trade Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Brendan Barber and Hermes Stewardship Services founder David Pitt-Watson, urges pension ...

Impax environment trust hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... sectors. It's these sub sectors which are set to benefit from a raft of global public policy initiatives such as the European Union's 20-20-20 climate change package and President-elect Barack Obama's New Deal which plans to invest $150 billion in these ...

BGI appoints CIO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Barclays Global Investors' Australian chief executive, Morry Waked, has been promoted to chief investment officer and global head for BGI's global active equity business. Waked has handed over his responsibilities for Australia although he retains his ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
AvSuper has sought to clarify the fund is not a government super fund after receiving phone calls from members regarding the government's move to merge three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement ...

Snowball FUA grows $700m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... busily consolidating over that time frame. In October, Snowball subsidiary Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions to tap into the mining rich towns of South Australia ...

Aviva pushes PRI cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... the Aviva Investors European Renewable Energy Fund that develops and finances renewable energy projects in the European Union. Dromer said the initiatives stem from the firm's belief that well governed companies with responsible management practices ...

Westpac number one ADI branch owner

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... have 50 per cent more branches than the number three ranked ANZ. By comparison, the top community banking group, Credit Union of Australia, has 73 branches. The top ten control only 300.