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Aus Ethical opens property trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
Australian Ethical Investment has launched a new property trust, a fund that invests in energy efficient buildings with a minimum 5-Star Green Star rating. The trust, which was launched by Caroline Le Couteur, Greens MLA in Canberra, aims to provide ...

Private equity firms sign PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
In a sign of the times, two of the country's leading private equity firms, Ironbridge Capital Australia and CHAMP Private Equity have signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). The UN PRI is used as a blueprint for pension ...

Financial advisers need more support: Wright

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
The financial advice industry should provide more support and counseling services to financial advisers that are over-stressed, said an industry executive who criticised the industry's response to assisting its advisers. Kylie Wright, partner at Ulton ...

AXA tackles longevity risk with North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
AXA Australia is targeting investor longevity risk with plans to launch another North product that provides a guaranteed income stream next year. The product, still in development stage, provides the flexibility of an allocated pension, which keeps ...

Challenger annuities post record sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Challenger's Guaranteed Income Plan annuities product received a record $91 million in August alone as financial advisers look for ways to preserve client income in retirement. In addition, while financial advisers are also allocating client money to ...

Seniors are tech savvy: survey

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... Australians just aren't interested in technology, however we know from talking to our members this just isn't the case," said Michael O'Neill, chief executive at National Seniors Australia. "Despite not growing up with technologies such as the internet ...

Campbell wins 2009 AFA Adviser of the Year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... The five other finalists this year were Marc Bineham from Noall & Co; John Campbell from One Stop Financial Services; Michael Holmes from Johansen Financial Services; Steve Salvia from Southern Financial Strategies and William Webster from Financial ...

Financial Standard finalist in ACSI Media Award

Financial Standard journalist Michael Hobbs was the runner-up at this year's Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI) Media Award, an award that recognises outstanding work on reporting corporate governance issues. Hobbs' submission, "Cents and ...

GFP snaps up Timbercorp assets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... and the total value of its global plantation assets exceeds $2.5 billion. GFP's director of Asia Pacific investments, Michael Edgar, said ABP's immediate priorities would be to implement fire protection plans, resume cultivation and maintenance programs ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
A global investment manager survey has found more than 41 per cent of businesses are operating in the red and around three quarters have no cost reduction strategy. The survey found 41 per cent of the global investment manager industry is operating ...