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Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Index firm FTSE has launched the Australia version of the established FTSE4Good Global index, which features the country's 'green' companies and is also a means to compare company best practice. The FTSE4Good Australia 30 Index contains Australia's ...

Fund manager sentenced

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Sydney based Gregory Nathan has been sentenced to seven years in prison following an Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation that found he had acted dishonestly and gambled investors money. ASIC found Nathan operated an unregistered ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (15 - 19 Sep 2008) The market jubilation that followed the US Treasury's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac early last week quickly faded as problems in Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and American International Group ...

Pax fined for SRI breach

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
US-based fund manager Pax World Management was forced to stump up US$500,000 in regulatory fines for violating its own socially responsible investments (SRI) policies. According to the Securities Exchange Commission, the firm bought 10 securities between ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
US funds with a high private equity exposure have come out tops of the investment returns league, new figures show. A recent survey by Northern Trust indicate that players with heavy diversification strategies, particularly those who favoured private ...

Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Ne'er the twain shall meet but retail fund chief Brian Bissaker from Colonial First State and industry fund chief Ian Silk from Australian Super, shared centre stage to talk about how the industry can best serve financial planners, its members and the ...

CFS GAM rides $1bn infra wave

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) remains bullish on domestic and international unlisted infrastructure assets after attracting approximately $1 billion in new infrastructure mandates in nine months. Although the firm would not ...

Equator Principles still relevant: CFS GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM). Drafted in 2003 and revised in 2006, the Equator Principles commits signatories to not provide loans to borrowers that cannot ...

CFS GAM names new chief

A senior figure at State Street Global Advisors, Mark Lazberger, takes on the chief executive officer post at Colonial First State Global Asset Management in September. The Commonwealth Bank has appointed Lazberger to the helm, effective 1 September ...

Loomis Sayles taps luxury goods and alt energy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
US based investment manager Loomis Sayles is positioning its Global Growth fund to capture global consumer expenditure in luxury electronic items and rising demand for alternative energy sources despite the on going global economic slump. Mark Baribeau ...