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Hedge fund standards board expands APAC team

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... PermaTrust Asset Management, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, Telstra Super and the Victorian Funds Management Corporation.

ANZ selling stake in Chinese bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... has agreed to sell its 20% stake in Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank. ANZ is selling its stake to China COSCO Shipping Corporation and Shanghai Sino-Poland Enterprise Management Development Corporation. Each entity will acquire a 10% stake at a total cost ...

ASIC takes Westpac to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
A battle over the definition of personal and general financial advice will play out in the Federal Court following ASIC's decision to bring civil proceedings against Westpac subsidiaries. The corporate regulator is alleging Westpac Securities Administration ...

CSC contributes to global ESG think tank

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation recently formed part of a powerful asset owner think tank in Japan, discussing best practice in ESG investment and portfolio management. The Global Asset Owners' Forum, organised by the Japanese Government ...

Insurance in super must be maintained: AIA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
Insurer AIA says communicating the importance and value of life insurance is vital for all Australians and the latest parliamentary inquiry is another opportunity to do so. Reaffirming its support for life insurance within superannuation, AIA said life ...

ICG acquires major WA wind farm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... which have the annual capacity to power the equivalent of around 40,000 homes, provide renewable energy to WA's Water Corporation to offset the energy requirements of the Southern Seawater desalination plant near Bunbury." He added: "The wind farm has ...

Whistleblower protections under microscope

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
The Federal Government aims to strengthen whistleblower protections in the tax and corporate sectors by reviewing several identity and disclosure rules. Federal Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer, confirmed this morning that ...

Super skimming adviser permanently banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
A Gold Coast adviser was permanently banned by ASIC for acting dishonestly and engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Stewart Banks was a representative of Professional Investment Services (PIS) - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centrepoint Alliance ...

TIAA appoints Franklin Templeton co-president

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... Templeton subsidiaries. Prior to Franklin Templeton, he was a senior investment officer at the International Finance Corporation, which is part of the World Bank Group. He is currently an advisory council member at DocuSign and The Hive and a board member ...

CBA finances wind farm construction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... construction of one of Australia's largest wind farms. The bank is co-financing the project with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, CWP Renewables, Partners Group, Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Denmark's export credit agency EKF ...