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Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Superannuation funds must better engage with the boards of listed companies in order to bring a longer-term perspective to their decisions, according to the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA). In a new paper entitled, 'Improving engagement between ...

AMP migrates platforms into North Online

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... company's full year results this week. The migration represents the transfer of 131,000 customers and more than $14 billion in funds under advice onto the North technology. The North platform itself recently reached $10 billion in funds under advice ...

EQT appoints portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Prior to this, he held several senior roles at UBS Wealth Management in both Australia and the UK, including head of managed funds.

ClearView reports $9.1 million profit

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... figure represents a 7% rise from the same period last year. The financial advice and life insurance provider saw a growth in funds under management of 14%, hitting $1.63 billion. It also saw the number of advisers increase from 94 this time last year ...

AustralianUnity profits fall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... an encouraging position for the overall Group's operations," he said. On the investment management side of the business, funds under management rose from $7.11 billion at the end of FY13 to $7.32 billion.

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... primarily held in government bonds with returns to members guaranteed to be at least 2.5% pa but members can place excess funds in investment linked accounts where they can choose their own asset allocation including instruments like ETFs. For those ...

ASIC accepts EU from forex broker over prohibited IMA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... through a registered managed investment scheme. ASIC's investigation found the IMAs, which were opened by 34 clients and had funds totalling more than $2.6 million, were not operated in this way. ASIC was concerned that Forex FS had received advice which ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... how advisers could demonstrate that there is not a conflict of interest in providing services to both employers and super funds. "We've already put some suggestions to Treasury as to how it could be managed by putting in strict controls, and Treasury ...

IOOF reports growth across the board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... tax of $48.3 million in its interim results, and will pay an interim fully franked dividend of 22.5 cents per share. The funds management, advice, superannuation and trustee services provider saw growth across the board, with funds under management ...

Financial Index launches low-cost advice platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... out financial planning services, but future phases include integrating online accounting, lending and self-managed super funds (SMSF) solutions. Financial Index claims that the MOVO service costs about ten times less than its traditional financial advice ...