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CBA, Westpac put spotlight on financial exclusion

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have launched their first Financial Inclusion Action Plans in a bid to help those experiencing financial exclusion. The FIAP program, led by Good Shepherd Microfinance in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact, EY ...

Global firm introduces Australian pooled funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... tobacco and cluster munitions manufacturers. Pzena has appointed Equity Trustees as the responsible entity of the funds and plans to launch the second Australian pooled fund - the Pzena Global Expanded Value Fund - in early 2017. Pzena currently manages ...

Instos consider Aussie infrastructure plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
Industry superannuation funds and other institutional investors were watching with interest yesterday as the Federal Government unveiled its infrastructure strategy for the next 15 years. Most significant is the government's development of a freight ...

Property manager launches new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... 2017, aimed at co-financing the development of a hotel at Sydney's Green Square. The Folkestone Green Square Hotel Fund plans to launch in March by raising about $22.5 million from third party capital. Together with construction finance, the hotel's ...

Industry fund fights financial exclusion

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... more financially inclusive Australia." HESTA and the 12 other organisations who committed to Financial Inclusion Action Plans (FIAPs) outlined measurable actions to improve financial inclusion and to raise awareness of the issue. As part of its FIAP ...

VicSuper highlights retirement struggles

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... still on the table, anyone who is retired or nearing retirement age needs to take a really good look at their financial plans for the future, to help ensure they've got enough money to last their retirement."

Preqin buys solution platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... Preqin said the initial focus will be to further develop Baxon's portfolio management and investor reporting platform, with plans to expand into other geographic regions. "The private equity industry is facing a period of increasing reporting and regulator ...

New fund manager hot property

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... re-development, as well as identifying future high growth commercial property areas," Hardie said. I-Gen Funds Management plans to launch its first fund in 2017 and Hardie expects to acquire up to five commercial properties over the next year, with the ...

MLC bolsters group insurance team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... team, as we increase our focus on group Insurance." "Our ability to attract such great external talent is testament to our plans to broaden and deepen our servicing of corporate and industry funds." Smith joined MLC in November 2015 and has made several ...

ANZ wealth sale marks end of an advice era

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
ANZ's potential sale of its wealth business will send ripples through the succession plans of many advice businesses now that banks can no longer be considered a "buyer of last resort." During a media briefing discussing the bank's full-year results ...