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Australian foundations sample impact investing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... reasons is the work of philanthropists in creating the opportunity set so important in moving this space forward." In the Australian context the social enterprise and development investment funds, renewable energy funds, community infrastructure funds ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... Australia... in the same boat as Europe?" Why bother with the question mark Alphaville? You seemed too sure, "That the Australian economy may be in trouble will not be news to FT Alphaville readers." It's ok to get this from the envious POMs, the Australian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
The Australian market has opened higher following mixed leads from Europe and the US overnight. At 1030 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.4 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4,308.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 25.7 ...

Super asset changes deliver positive return

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... would be sitting of returns right now of -3% because of the tremendously strong relationship (correlation 96%) between Australian share market returns and super fund returns." The poor returns were attributed to the average super fund allocation of around ...

AUI stays with OneVue unit registry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has renewed its contract to use OneVue's unit registry system for the next five years. OneVue is an independently owned operator of unified managed accounts. It has been operating its unit registry business since 2001. ...

REST Industry Super delivers 0.85%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... the pension division. The result having a 'plus' in front of it, stands in sharp contrast to the -7% delivered by the Australian share market, the asset class than normally drives super fund returns. Offsetting this poor share market outcome is Australian ...

Australian shares outperform all other asset classes

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
Australian shares have outperformed all other asset classes - including residential investment property, fixed interest and cash - over a 20 year period, according to this year's Russell Investments/ASX Long-Term Investing Report. The 14th edition of ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... Balmain's investment strategy is to construct and actively manage a diversified granular portfolio of mid-sized ($5-$10M) Australian and New Zealand first mortgage secured commercial real estate loans.

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... contributions. Regardless of the politics of the budget, bond markets have already responded positively by lowering yields on Australian government bonds to their lowest level in more than 40 years, a trend that is expected to add to pressure on the ...

AMP appoints ESG research associate

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... responsible for assisting in determining how AMP Capital votes, on behalf of the company and its clients, at all meetings of Australian and global companies held by AMP Capital funds, including global listed property, global listed infrastructure, Asian ...