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Bendigo targets ethically conscious investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
The wealth division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is targeting younger investors with the launch of a socially responsible growth fund. The bank said the fund will be offered as both a standalone fund for investors and as a choice in its Bendigo SmartStart ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... September 2016. It doesn't help, either, that the art of investment management itself has become more complicated in the past decade. At the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney and Melbourne, State Street Global Advisors' head of investments ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... told attendees there are currently four fading trends which had a detrimental impact on the global economy over the past decade. He said the world is transitioning to a new era which will create significant financial implications and opportunities. Labeling ...

Global infrastructure goes for growth in 2017

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... positive outlook on the global macro economy, noting that every major economy from the US to Japan was coming out of a decade of sluggish growth. "We're finally moving out of a post-GFC period of really sluggish global growth, and we're seeing the big ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... assets now amount to over 48% of global pensions assets compared to 41% in 2006, resultant of a growth rate of 5.6% over the decade - defined benefit assets grew 2.6%. The study also identified a fall in allocations to equities and bonds over the past ...

AirTree hires former Accel vice president

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... Cameron said the Australian entrepreneurial ecosystem has hit an inflection point, transforming itself since he left a decade ago. Cameron is known for being an early investor in Facebook and Dropbox, as well as a collection of successful Australian ...

Expensive property market creating super opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... if a person contributed to super the difference between rent payments and the weekly cost of owning a property, over a decade they could achieve around 80% of the profit that a property would generate. "The only real argument for owning a property now ...

Second Sydney airport lacking investment return

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... investment proposition extremely challenging since the group would be unlikely to earn an adequate return for at least a decade." Following the assessment, S&P revised the outlook on Southern Cross Airports Corp (SCACH) from stable to positive, and affirmed ...

Australian Unity buys Altius, sells down Wingate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... infrastructure, debt, fixed interest and cash. "The significant growth in Australian Unity's wealth activities over the past decade, which now include life, banking, a substantial direct property business, and our expanding investment activities - internal ...

Super changes spark engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
The Federal Government's rollout of the biggest changes to superannuation in more than a decade is seeing financial advisers and investors pay increased attention to portfolio management. At the investor end of the spectrum, Colonial First State is ...