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AMP to manage Trio Capital super money

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... acting as trustee of Trio Capital since last December, made the decision to transfer the funds to AMP after a "rigorous assessment process". The new fund will be known as the Alliance Superannuation Plan. The mandate will see AMP SignatureSuper receive ...

UniSuper owns 5pc of Gunns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... both board and management level at Gunns, so we'll be discussing this impact with them in the context of their ESG assessment. We are acutely aware of Gunn's poor historical track record in virtually all forms of governance." "When we review the fund ...

Cbus hires Frontier and AustralianSuper execs

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... AustralianSuper executive David Constable as marketing manager. Ridley will join Cbus in late November to provide economic assessment, investment risk management and portfolio construction for the fund. He had previously worked as an investment consultant ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... Easy! Whether or not inflation comes in higher, lower or as expected, the RBA would act according to its intelligent assessment of the outlook for the domestic economy. An outlook that could all change next week when the Fed changes the money metrics. ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... American computer scientist, Alan Kay, who said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Edmondson's upbeat assessment was the ideal cue for the AFA's high level industry leadership panel that included AFA chief executive Richard Klipin ...

Singapore makes $8.4bn grab for ASX

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Singapore stock exchange, SGX, has made an $8.4 billion bid for the ASX - a move that could see Australia's major exchange become a mere divisional office to Singapore's, if the deal receives regulatory approval. Australian Securities Exchange shareholders ...

Trustees must raise bar on governance: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Superannuation trustees should be subject to higher governance standards than listed company directors owing to the long term and compulsory nature of super, according to industry body ASFA. This week ASFA launched its updated Governance Best Practice ...

LGS appoints managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... Australia compliance expert Hannah Deukmejian as risk manager where she will be responsible for the identification and assessment the fund's risks, design and operating effectiveness of key controls. Former managing director of Innovest Strategic Value ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... affected by its ESG policies in the short-term but also in the long term. Take an airport stock. The strategy could do an assessment based on what the stock could be priced today based on the underlying company's ESG policies, and what the price could ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... it rip boys! US equities closed weaker while we were sleeping apparently still reeling from the previous day's FOMC assessment that the US economy remains weak. Ok, let's give it that. But Bloomberg took it a bit farther. "The Fed said yesterday for ...