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The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
On a quiet afternoon in 2000, Pru Bennett was sitting with the three other partners of proxy advisory firm Corporate Governance International, wondering how they were going to jumpstart the business. "Gee," she remembers thinking, "We just need a few ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Another Monday, another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark ...

More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Shaw and Partners (Shaw) has appointed five more Macquarie veterans just weeks after the private wealth firm hired three others from the financial services giant. Former Macquarie Private Wealth Victorian state manager Malcolm Cameron has taken on the ...

Direct investment options are not SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
The SMSF Association has renewed calls for Australians to seek professional financial advice whether it be managing or seeking to begin a self-managed superannuation fund. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said everybody should get advice ...

Cbus responds to Royal Commission allegations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
Industry superannuation fund Cbus has implored Commissioner Dyson Heydon to reject a version of events pointing to Cbus chief executive David Atkin being involved in releasing personal details of fund members who were Lis-Con employees. On Friday Cbus ...

Alphinity wins AMP Capital mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
AMP Capital has awarded holdings from its AMP Capital Fundamental Long Short Fund to Alphinity Investment Management's Alphinity Australian Share Fund. AMP Capital head of public market solutions Tanya Debakhapouve said this decision came about following ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

Asset management modeling low-cost airlines

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan foresees the future of asset management being similar to the evolution of low-cost airlines. He said low-cost airlines made flying affordable by stripping out many of the "bells and whistles" and ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...