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IFM partners with AMC

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... Australia, Europe and North America, IFM said it brings to the partnership a unique understanding of the long term, sustainable management of infrastructure assets drawing on its 17 year investment track record. Under the agreement, Danny Elia investment ...

CEO bonuses tumbled in 2011

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... executive pay continues to be based on the principle that executive pay should be designed to reward long-term and sustainable performance, rather than providing windfall payments for short-term profit maximisation.

Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
Governments, asset owners and corporations will need to work together in a stronger partnership to achieve a sustainable investment future, new research from Towers Watson has found. After surveying 22 asset managers in conjunction with Oxford University ...

Apostle launches global equity fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... global equities, using a bottom-up fundamental approach. It relies on its own research to seek out companies with sustainable dividend growth, with no distinction made between emerging and established markets. Karyn West, managing director of Apostle ...

Call for change follows Perpetual 57% profit fall

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... time, Lloyd said that after an "honest look" at the business, it was clear that Perpetual's operating model was not sustainable. Chairman Peter Scott had his pay cut by 42%, while pay for non-executive directors, which averaged about $230,000 in 201/11 ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... findings also point to particular difficulty employee's experience - within the current economic climate -delivering sustainable workplace productivity. The study also shows that more than half (51%) of Australian employees are working longer hours and ...

Towers Watson expands equities team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... professionals like Nick and Matt we are also ensuring we maintain our ability to provide our clients with a significant and sustainable competitive edge," he added. The appointments follow six other recent hires in the growing Australian investment team ...

Life insurance industry under pressure

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Attracting new capital to build a more sustainable life insurance industry is currently one of the major challenges faced by Australian insurers, according to TAL. Jim Minto, managing director of Tal said this is a challenge because with the lack of ...

BT Wrap adds Legg Mason real income fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... Ashton Reid, portfolio manager. "We built this solution using real assets - they offer the three key advantages of sustainable yield, liquidity and inflation protection which is so important given our living costs are continually rising." The fund has ...

Lloyds Bank CM snaps up two former UBS FX heads

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... Bank Corporate Markets said the two hires are in line with the "company's strategic aim of building a competitive and sustainable global foreign exchange business." Bernasconi will be responsible for developing and delivering core foreign exchange products ...