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Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... view, what we're all about is not necessarily ideological - it's simply common sensical," he said. "What it is, is 21st century investment discipline," he said. Australia counts key institutional investors as advocates of SRI. Consultancy Mercer has ...

ASFA principles recommend super industry changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... entire industry can agree upon. "We are also putting in benchmarks. If we are embarking to move the industry into the 21st century, then we need to know the costs and have data integrity. We are working with ITM to establish these benchmarks for the ...

Century replaces 452 Capital with Perennial

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Century Australia Investments (CYA) has appointed Perennial Value Management as the interim manager replacing 452 Capital for the firm's Australian equities portfolio. According to a press statement, CYA received proposals from various fund managers ...

NGS Super takes fresh route to tap EM

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... idea of creating tailored resources mandates. Anthony Rodwell-Ball, chief executive officer of NGS Super, said the 21st century is turning more toward the Asian market with very clear demand coming from Asia for resources. "NGS has the view that we need ...

452 Capital mandates at risk

RUTH LIEW AND JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... 452 Capital to evaluate their investment mandates with the firm. In a statement to the ASX, listed investment vehicle Century Australia Limited (CYA) said it was "very concerned" about the changes, and is considering appointing an interim manager following ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... Blockbuster and online retailer EzyDVD, speaks at a conference with Danny Kaye, global chief executive officer of 20th Century Fox, about the future of the industry. On Friday, the Australian share market finished more than one per cent higher, snapping ...

Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... markets. The boutique, which already has $1.5 billion in funds under management, is named after Jeremy Bentham, an 18th century English philosopher and social reformer whose views on borrowing and lending influenced modern views on capital markets. Following ...

Trust advocates long-term staff incentives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Listed financial services group Trust hopes to take its 125-year-old operations into the next century through a staff incentive program that is better aligned with long-term shareholder and client interests. Chief executive John Atkin said that starting ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... among Americans. Mr. Brown eventually won the seat held by the late Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy for almost half a century. "And the lights all went out in Massachusetts...I will remember Massachusetts." It might as well be President Obama and ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...