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CFA launches SRI guidelines

MICHAEL HOBBS | MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008

The CFA Institute produced a top 10 list of responsible investment guidelines to help investors understand and incorporate socially responsible investments (SRI) into their portfolio. The list was developed after CFA members highlighted the need for ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS | FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008

The CFA Society of Sydney has launched its Ethics and Financial Integrity workshop this week and intends to offer the program internally for finance companies in the coming months. "This is the first in a series of what we'd like to roll out on a more ...

Russell names IC director

RUTH LIEW | THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008

... South East Asia. Prior to joining Russell, Franks was asset manager in North America and the UK for 25 years. Graeme Bibby, CFA, who is part of the investment consulting team in Melbourne, has been promoted from consultant to senior consultant. Bibby ...

Post sub-prime, ethics more crucial than ever: CFAs

ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008

Australia has just hosted its first ever board meeting for the chartered financial analysts (CFA) institute who are here to talk about what they need to do to keep up with growing demand for their professional qualifications. "Domestically the CFA brand ...

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007

... Global Advisors (SSgA) is launching their Global Equity Total Return product into the Australian market. Arlene Rockefeller, CFA and senior managing director of global equities at SSgA in Boston, said the new product is based upon strategies developed ...

Sunsuper digs deeper into alternatives

... investments. While at AMP, he was responsible for AMP insurance funds and was a founding director and past president of the CFA Society of Sydney. With a bigger investment team in place, the fund's chief investment officer David Hartley said the fund ...

Professionals must have an ethical code: CFA Institute

ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007

The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA), now 90,000 strong across 55 countries, said the key to its success over the last six decades is its sharp focus on professional ethics rather than just technical education. Ethics supported by professional ...

Perpetual CIO to head global CFA institute

... Perpetual Investments, will become the first Australian to be elected chairman of the prestigious Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute board, effective 1 September. The CFA Institute is a global, non-profit professional association that runs the ...

Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

... the "alternative" products, a trend which will become even more prevalent as the next wave of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professionals join the industry. "There are 148,000 [students] who will take their CFA exam in June and they are the ones ...

More global, more professional: FPSB

... framework will be the same but we want the program to be more globally consistent, much like the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program," said Maye. The move, he said, will make it easier for a financial planner based in one country to work in another ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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