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CAER sold to global service provider

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... specialises in governance and responsible investment. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced its acquisition of the Canberra-based Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER) this morning. CAER - whose clients also include institutional ...

Industry funds wary of stapling default members

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... yesterday to brief local ISA members on the Royal Commission and Productivity Commission's recommendations, while in Canberra the Senate pored over the Protecting Your Super Bill from last year's budget. The Senate last evening passed legislation to ...

Primary digs heels on Aurora fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... This is despite Aurora's refusal to acknowledge the validity of Tuesday's vote. On Tuesday at a meeting held in Canberra, unitholders of the fund voted to replace Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity with Primary Securities. Primary ...

Investors rage coup against Aurora

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... backed by some investors of the fund (ASX: ABW) that hold a share greater than 5%. At a meeting convened by Primary in Canberra on Tuesday, the fund's investors voted to replace Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity and to appoint Prime Securities ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... returns. The best performing housing markets in 2018 were Hobart, where values rose 8.7% and total returns were 14.3%; and Canberra where dwellings picked up 3.3% in value and 8% in total return. CoreLogic head of research Tim Lawless said the housing ...

Australian Unity fund manager steps down

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... five years. AOF holds a diversified portfolio of nine office properties in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra metropolitan areas and CBD. On November 28, AOF's responsible entity rejected a revised takeover offer from Starwood Capital ...

TH Real Estate launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... CBD. It is currently being developed by Built. In Australia, the fund will look for investments in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide in addition to Sydney. TH Real Estate managing director Louise Kavanagh said Sydney is a key investment ...

NAB still unclear on true impact of misconduct

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... exact number of clients hit by the bank's misconduct as he fronted the parliamentary inquiry into major banks in Canberra this morning. Thorburn said he expects the total number of customers impacted to be "hundreds of thousands" but said for the ...

ANZ chief says remediation is "distracting"

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... compensate some customers. This morning, Elliott told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Canberra that it was one of the two major banks that admitted to ASIC it viewed remediating customers as "distracting." The inquiry ...

Banks to answer for Hayne report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
The chief executives of Australia's big four banks will head to Canberra to face questioning over the findings published in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's interim report. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics will commence its next ...