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Industry funds may set up master trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... non-government education - and provide further presence for NGS Super as "the only truly national fund in non-government schools." NGS Super chair Dick Shearman said the master trust structure is well used by retail funds to gain benefits of size while ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... inconsistency from the exercise of discretionary policy. The Taylor rule synthesized, and provided a compromise between, competing schools of economics thought in a language devoid of rhetorical passion." "Devoid of rhetorical passion"... just the data. ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... impact investing strategies in Australia. He added that he recently came across a strategy that invests in solar panels in schools. "This helps reduce the energy cost of the school and has a cashflow that we can invest back in the school for servicing ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... teaching program is one example. "Our target is embedding financial literacy from K-12. So far 35% of the nation's 10,000 schools have engaged in the program. And to date 14,000 teachers have undertaken professional development in financial literacy," ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... and enrol an additional 33 girls into our program," Free To Shine chief executive Nicky Mih said. "Girls should be in schools, not brothels. This grant is helping us proactively tackle this problem and prevent young girls from being trafficked." Another ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... Council and Social Impact Fund, as well as the Opera Australia Capital Fund. He also holds directorships with Australian Schools Plus, Australian Philanthropic Services, and MH Carnegie and Co. Fraser is currently the head of strategy and investment ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... Stepping Stones, adopted by three of the largest fifty school districts in the US. "ORIGO's founders are sought out by schools and education administrators globally, and they have developed impressive global IP over many years," Blue Sky Private Equity ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
While US federal and state governments explore ways to boost private savings among Americans and introduce fiduciary standards for advisers, a major association has said a more important step is introducing financial literacy training into school curriculum. ...

AustralianSuper adds London site to property portfolio

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... includes some eight million square feet of offices, homes, hotels, leisure, shops and restaurants, a university, galleries, schools, community facilities and music venues, will remain a single entity, managed under the current 'one estate' approach. ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... offload non-core infrastructure. And, of course, there are ongoing requirements back on the social infrastructure PTPs - schools, prisons, hospitals." For the full story, download the 23 February issue of the Financial Standard iPad app here.