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University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... followed by Nestle (1.79%). Alcohol company Diageo is 12th at 1.29%. Among the top six Australian shareholdings are the big four banks, Telstra and BHP Billiton. In June, Insync Funds Management chief investment officer Monik Kotecha advocated for Australians ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... equities was not helped by a concentrated market and a part of members' contributions will always likely end up in the "big four banks, two miners and a telco" because your benchmark relative managers aren't going to blow their risk budgets. As a large ...

Member activism could hurt super returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... would be left to invest in Australia?" he asked, adding that a "purist" position would also involve divesting from the big four banks, which fund coal developments. Activists "are putting the pressure in the wrong place. To expect that the superannuation ...

Four pillars policy is killing innovation: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Nicholls noted that "prior to the GFC there was significant change in technology innovation, pricing and services" among the big four financial institutions. However, "post GFC everything has been much more muted and there is significantly less innovation. ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... strong Australian open (no, not the tennis) to the bank, more so that investors seemed to have ridden themselves of the big four banks' - ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC - capital raising spooks of last week. Even more so that commodity prices of most variety have ...

Market higher despite resources slump

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... precious metal. But there were gains by Oil Search after its improved full year production forecast, and three of the big four banks. Commonwealth Bank was the only major lender to be lower, down 34 cents at $88.02.

Big four prepared for APRA capital adequacy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Australia's big four banks have commented on APRA's announcement that it would increase capital adequacy requirements for residential mortgage exposures. APRA's change means that the risk weight on residential mortgage exposures for Australian deposit-taking ...

ANZ ETFs added to BT, Asgard platforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... now have access to the ANZ ETFS products. As reported in Financial Standard in May, ANZ became the first of Australia's big four banks to provide ETF products when it created a new company, ANZ ETFS Management Limited, with ETF Securities. The funds ...

Australian market strong after miners' gains

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... was up two cents, or 1.12 per cent, to $1.805, while Santos had gained 18 cents, or 2.41 per cent, to $7.66. As for the big four banks, ANZ had gained 17 cents to $32.38, Commonwealth had risen 47 cents to $86.07, National Australia Bank was up 24 cents ...

Australia stocks tumble on commodity falls

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... cents, or 1.26 per cent, to $49.43. Fortescue Metals Group had lost six cents, or 3.58 per cent, to $1.615. As for the big four banks, ANZ had shed 47 cents to $31.80, Commonwealth had fallen $1.13 to $84.64, National Australia Bank was down 41 cents ...