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HESTA chair on responsible investment board

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... Responsible Investment (PRI) after election results were released recently. Emslie has been appointed in one of two asset owner board positions, receiving 76 votes or 29.9% of the PRI signatories who voted. Joining in the other asset owner board position ...

Macquarie to enter robo-advice sector

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Macquarie will soon offer a digital advice service across all standard asset classes. Macquarie's OwnersAdvisory service is designed to reach the "more than 80% of Australian adults don't currently access professional financial advice," according to ...

Evolving super sparks C-suite shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
How superannuation funds meet the constant need to fund longer member retirements is presenting significant challenges for executive teams in board rooms across the country. Apart from ongoing regulatory reform there are other forces at play which are ...

Financial services firms acquire $1bn Technology Park

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Three financial services firms have acquired Sydney's Australian Technology Park and will fund an estimated development of $1 billion. AMP Capital, Sunsuper and Mirvac will acquire the 93,000 square metre property from UrbanGrowth NSW Development Corporation. ...

Northern Trust appoints head of hedge funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Northern Trust has announced a new head of hedge fund services for Asia-Pacific, aligning with an evolving service demand in the hedge fund industry. The internal move sees Ali Sheikh appointed to the Asia-Pacific role. He was most recently a senior ...

Paradigm appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
Paradigm Group, an investment advisory group that focuses exclusively on executives, professionals and business owners, has appointed a new chief executive. Bill Danaher joins Paradigm from Industry Fund Services, where he was also chief executive. ...

CBA embeds ESG into investment, wealth management

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has introduced stronger environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and practices across its investment and wealth management divisions. The new Wealth Management Responsible Investing Framework will integrate ESG into ...

Aspen revises fund merger proposal after Sunsuper bid

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... proposed the merger in September, suggesting in its statement to the ASX that this would result in a "leading specialist owner, manager and developer of accommodation parks with a fully integrated management platform." At the time, Aspen chair Frank ...

Class amends IPO after AMP acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Class, the self-managed superannuation fund administrative software provider, has lost about 10,500 billable SMSF portfolios from its customer base following two acquisitions announced by AMP. AMP has informed Class it will be moving the SMSF portfolios ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
During the 2014 financial year 37% of new director appointments in the ASX100 were women, reportedly reflecting an overarching market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' ...