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AMP Capital launches global infra fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... sector investment. Additionally, the fund will be benchmarked against the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure Index AUD Hedged and the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure Index (AUD) respectively. As of March 31, AMP Capital Investors had ...

CommInsure and Zurich win insurance awards

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
CommInsure has won 'Life Insurance Company of the Year' award while Zurich Financial Services Australia won the 'Treasurer's Award for Good Governance and Practice' at the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards. The awards, in its ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
With the ink hardly dry on the Cooper Report's recommendations for a Trustee Code of Practice, the prudential regulator APRA has released revised trustee guidances on capital structures, risk management, resources adequacy and trustee fitness. Following ...

AUSCOAL Super chief wins award

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
Bruce Watson, the head of the super fund billed as one of the top 50 employers in Australia, was named the 2010 Fund Executive of the Year for his achievements in superannuation. The award was handed last night in a dinner reception by the Fund Executive ...

Art lobby wins fight to keep SMSFs art-friendly

SPAA MEDIA STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
The Federal Government has endorsed the Cooper Review's key MySuper reforms but in a major victory for the art industry and self-managed super fund trustees, it said that it won't adopt the move to ban SMSFs from investing in 'collectables'. The leading ...

Australian ESG expert claims world-first

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
Canberra-based researcher CAER becomes the first non-European organisation to get a Voluntary Quality Standard (VQS) badge for its work on assessing environmental, social, governance (ESG) and ethical performance analysis of companies. The certification ...

Should super go social?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
Social media expert Kim Anderson, formerly from ninemsn and now founder of www.readingroom.com.au, said the benefits of social media are real and the more super fund communication professionals take the trend seriously, the better off they will be. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open in positive territory after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced gains for the fourth consecutive day. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up ...

NRL stars join Auscoal Super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
Former Newcastle Knights captain Tony 'Butts' Butterfield and ex-Queensland State of Origin player, Adrian Vowles, have joined Auscoal Super's business relationship team. Butterfield and Vowles will join the industry super fund's relationship team in ...

Trustee outsourcing deals in regulator spotlight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
New research from APRA reveals that while the focus on super funds using related party service providers often focuses on not-for-profit funds, it is the outsourcing practices of retail funds that present more concerns to the regulator. According to ...