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Rural FM dupes investors: Short-seller

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... applying dubious valuations to its assets. As an example, RFF fabricated over $28 million of rental income by its two largest third-party lessees, Bonitas claimed. It believes RFF artificially inflated its figures to raise cash from the capital markets ...

FASEA exam results spark debate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... "I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one." She explained: "I don't see that this exam was to get rid of a third of advisers by bellcurving the result, it is to test that advisers know their ethical and legal obligations. What it has shown ...

AustralianSuper eyes $1.48bn in Indian infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... and private institutions from around the world. AustralianSuper and the Canadian pension fund's investment is in the third close of NIIF's master fund whose other investors are the Indian government, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Temasek ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... cited in this report - are held through index-based ETFs and other index products, which track the investment results of third-party indices. "Index managers such as BlackRock seek to replicate the performance of the index and do not select or exclude ...

Pinnacle profits up 32%

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... institutional investors. Pinnacle has made a push into listed funds (LICs, LITs and recently ETFs) which accounted for almost a third of retail inflows of the year $2.9 billion. Majority of net institutional inflows came from Firetrail, a long short ...

Workplace deaths missing from ESG reports: ACSI

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... said. There is a positive outlook for ESG reporting trends, however, with standards having "improved significantly" and one-third of companies giving their investors comprehensive and transparent ESG disclosures. Companies that do not disclose their ...

Unfair contract terms extended to insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... proposed new UCT regime will apply to insurance contracts covered by the Insurance Contracts Act. Among the other changes, third-party beneficiaries of an insurance contract will be able to bring a claim under the new regime. For example, death benefit ...

Industry fund changes asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... 17-year relationship with Willis Towers Watson. LGIAsuper has appointed JANA to act as its asset consultant, marking the third of its key external contracts to change hands this year. LGIAsuper chief executive Kate Farrar said JANA was appointed because ...

Intiger makes global operations head redundant

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... continue to receive." Flagship software BOOM has rolled out new features, including a new advice request process, API for third-party integration, SOA quality checking system and an improved online fact find.

Lloyds, pension fund pay $250m settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... Banking Group entities. Under the terms of the final settlement, Standard Life Aberdeen will continue to manage about one-third ($62 billion) of the total until at least April 2022 - the end of the initial contract term for the original mandate. The ...