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Future Generation marks first year with strong performance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... inaugural 1.0 cent per share fully franked dividend. Each year FGX donates 1% of their average monthly net tangible assets to charity as all participating fund managers have agreed to waive management and performance fees. This year FGX will donate $2.29 ...

Future Generation donates $4.71m to charity

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
Listed philanthropic vehicle Future Generation Global Investment Company (FGG) has donated $4.71 million to Australian charities. The 22 charities which received donations include beyondblue, the Black Dog Institute, Brain and Mind Centre, Butterfly ...

Banks will always take more risk: APRA exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... bankers, insurance executives and superannuation fund trustees are honest, competent people and they're not running a charity," Littrell said. "Most of the news reports tend to be of the man bites dog variety and the reason it tends to be newsworthy ...

Affluence launches new fee model to help investors and charity

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... structure that charges no fee unless it makes a positive return and donates 10% of any performance fees it receives to charity. Daryl Wilson who founded Affluence in 2015 after a successful career with Cromwell Property Group said they had designed the ...

Charities must go corporate or face extinction: Koda

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... Non-Profit Boards', the company predicts many charities risk irrelevancy if they fail to compete with new challengers in the charity space, and rising performance and delivery expectations. "Many non-profit groups face extinction in the face of growing ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... financial services industry took over an entire floor at the Ivy in Sydney to lend their support for FICAP and the night's charity beneficiaries: Mirabel, The Shepherd Centre and Weave Youth & Community Services. The amount raised took the total tally ...

Wilson AM commits to Pledge 1% philanthropy movement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... many more Australian companies take the pledge," he said. In the past two years Wilson Asset Management has launched two charity-focused listed investment companies, Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) and Future Generation Global Investment Company ...

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... highlighting that all donations and bequests to charities should be totally exempt from estate duties...so the more you give to charity, the more you help others whilst reducing the tax burden on the estate," Costello said.

FICAP returns to the Ivy for tenth anniversary

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) is planning its biggest ever event for its milestone tenth anniversary charity bash. The annual 'Who wants to be a RockStar' event will return to the Ivy in Sydney following the success of last year's ...

FPA charity names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Future2, the charitable foundation of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), has appointed Matthew Rowe as chair and added three new directors/trustees. Rowe has been the Future2 chair elect since 2014. He joined the Future2 board in ...