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Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

Citi and GSJBW win ESG awards

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Citi Investment Research & Analysis has been voted the best ESG broking firm and Andrew Gray from Goldman Sachs JBWere was recognised for his report on ethics and culture at the ESG Research Australia Awards. Last night's awards represented the first ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... his resignation to the board. Lennon sat on the investment committee and this role has been passed to fellow director, Michael Want. Unions NSW, NSW Business Chamber and Australian Federation of Employers & Industries all have representation on the ASSET ...

AustralianSuper revamps retirement investment path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
AustralianSuper is introducing a new age-based default for pension members and implementing a different path for those moving from accumulation to pension phase. The super fund conducted a review of the risk and benefits of its balanced option, which ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The sovereign wealth fund transparency index has found that Australia's $66 billion Future Fund is slightly less transparent than SWFs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), New Zealand and Azerbaijan. The SWF Institute has developed the Linaburg-Maduell ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Tobacco, alcohol and gaming sounds like a rock star life but investors in a fund that targets these industries aren't exactly crowd surfing their way to financial bliss. The US-based Vice fund identified stocks across tobacco, alcohol, gaming and aerospace/defense ...

AXA to launch blended premium insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
AXA Australia will soon adopt a blended premium pricing approach across its term life, trauma and total permanent disablement (TPD) insurance suite to make life insurance more affordable. Stephen Rosengren, head of individual life at AXA Australia ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
A US-based study has found many US fund managers are churning their portfolio more often than they said they would - giving new evidence that short-termism is rife and long-termism is just lip service for many. The study found nearly two thirds of institutionally ...

ASSET Super appoints LGT Capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has committed $50 million to invest with secondary market private equity investment firm, LGT Capital. The super fund has invested $12 million in the private equity investment firm's Crown Global Secondaries II product at the end of January ...

J.P. Morgan hires 50 for custody business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
J.P. Morgan's custody business has hired 50 executives across taxation, business analytics and client servicing in the past four months to cope with client demand. Bryan Gray, managing director of sales & client relationship management at J.P. Morgan ...