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Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Sustainability magazine, Ethical Investor, is holding a one-day forum to ensure investment managers understand how to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes. Michael Walsh, Ethical Investor executive ...

Short selling faces revamp

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Rules surrounding short selling in Australia look set to undergo a major overhaul following revelation that the crucial practice is effectively unregulated. The key problem, according to Senator Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The cost of processing contributions associated with Australia's Choice of Fund system is around $20 to $30 million per year, and could reach $90 million by 2012, according to CitiStreet. The global retirement plan administrator revealed the findings ...

Good billing helps SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Outsourcing fund administration works if you have the right billing arrangement in place, said Andrew Bloore, chief executive of smartsuper, a self-managed super fund administrator. Speaking at the SPAA conference last week, Bloore said some accounting ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... is the impact of fees, commissions and investment performance has on a member's final pay out. According to Rainmaker associate director of research Andrew Keevers, the line for a clear-cut adequacy solution is hard to draw. "There are two sides to the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... 5292.2. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract gained 69 points to 5214. Macquarie Equities associate director Lucinda Chan said resource stocks, including the big miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, were providing support ...

FPA to offer Life Risk course

... first off the rank. FPA chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch said the FPA has developed the new education program to enable Associate Financial Planners (AFP) practitioner members to gain a professional identification in their area of speciality. The new program ...

Bridges takes over as Scobie departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Peter Scobie has bid farewell to his position as head of fixed interest at Suncorp/Tyndall to take up the role of associate director - global fixed interest credit at QIC. Meanwhile ex-Tyndall head of fixed income and bonds, Roger Bridges, has moved ...

Govt creates super advisory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... academia were Marilyn Clark-Murphy, head of accounting, finance and economics at Edith Cowan University and John Piggot, associate dean of research at the University of New South Wales. Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, said ...

Aviva breaks industry fund hurdle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Wealth management group Aviva has stolen the march on rival industry funds by combining industry fund-style simplicity with retail fund-style service in its Navigator Business Super. It's like Aviva has capitulated to, and yet conquered, competition ...