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Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... manager of the Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund is seeing opportunity is in mega-cap materials stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Falling commodity prices have seen these stocks severely beaten up by the market. But Hofflin says price-to-book ratios ...

AustralianSuper launches new SRI investment option

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... base their restrictions on fossil fuel revenue or net asset value. "This decision will see companies like AGL, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Seven Group and Wesfarmers excluded, while some global utilities will remain. Transport companies responsible for ...

CalPERS urges Rio Tinto to report climate change risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
Rio Tinto is supportive of a resolution co-filed by US pension fund CalPERS requesting the global mining giant provide an annual report on environmental risks and opportunities associated with climate change. CalPERS holds about 250,000 shares in Rio ...

Martin Currie cautious on dividend growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... sustaining capital. Slack said Martin Currie Australia's income fund strategies do not currently hold ASX market majors like BHP or Rio Tinto because "they have this tug of war between shareholders wanting a dividend, current assets consuming their capital ...

Good Super founders take the reins from MD

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... impact superannuation fund". Andrew MacLeod, previously general manager community, communications and external relations at Rio Tinto (Copper), joined the fund in January 2015. At the time, a Good Super statement said he had joined the fund "that the ...

IOOF division launches philanthropy services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
Australian Executor Trustees (AET), a division of IOOF, has launched a number of philanthropy solutions that will allow advisers access to structures that will benefit their clients. The firm has also assisted Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... tons in the three months to Sept. 30, two days after Brazil's Vale said it produced a record 88.2 million tons in the period. Rio reported third-quarter output rose 12 percent."

GFC drove advisers to managed accounts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... outsourcing investment management," he noted that financial advice isn't really about "having great skills in whether to buy Rio or sell BHP." "We have an independent investment committee with a house view, and then we outsource the management of that ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... London's Spitalfields market. In his current role as chairman of the UK Trade & Investment Regeneration Investment Organisation (RIO), which was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 to find investment and create jobs and economic growth ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... blame Japan and Europe for their "beggar thy neighbour" policies by depreciating their currencies. We can blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August Board meeting ...