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Hastings sell US natural gas terminal for huge profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Hastings Funds Management has capitalised on the current high demand for infrastructure assets by selling its stake in a Texan liquid natural gas terminal for a return of five and half times what it paid. Together with Zachry American Infrastructure ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray spoke at the National Press Club following the release of the FSI interim report. "Thank you to the National Press Club for the interest you have shown in today's release of the interim report of ...

Calastone launches automated reporting tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
Calastone network users will be able to electronically communicate half yearly distribution income information from December. The new tool will automate distribution and communications between accountants managing self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and ...

AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Simon Flood to replace Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of its Asia Pacific business. Leoni is returning to his native France after four years in Asia. He will lead AXA IM's client management group. Based in Hong ...

Platinum and Iress named 'laggards' on sustainability

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
Platinum Asset Management Limited and Iress Limited are among just four ASX 200 companies that have failed to report on sustainability risk for the last four years, according to a study by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." -- Walt Whitman "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Super funds should not be shy of demanding full holdings disclosure from alternatives managers in order to meet reporting standards, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. Sicilia said that if the managers refuse to provide the information ...

Appetite for overseas assets up on last year

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
The proportion of Australian investors planning to increase their exposure to overseas assets is higher this year compared with the same time last year, according to the Certitude Global Investing Index (CGIII). The CGIII, which collates the views of ...

Retired High Court judge to chair CBA review panel

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Retired High Court Justice Ian Calllinan will head Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) independent review panel for the Open Advice Review program that will assist victims of bad financial advice between 2003 and 2012. Callinan will advise CBA chief executive ...

Australian students get top marks for financial literacy

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Australian students were amongst the top performers in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Financial Literacy assessment, which is the first international study of students' financial literacy. The study assessed the ...