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Solaris signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Solaris Investment Management has become the latest Australian fund manager to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). Denis Donohue, managing director at Solaris Investment Management, said the firm already integrated ...

E*TRADE fee hits planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
ANZ owned broking firm E*TRADE changed the pricing on one of its direct share packages - a move which could mean some financial planners will have to pay $1,250 per month for services that were previously free. The pricing changes affect a package the ...

India markets up 18pc on election

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Indian funds could receive renewed investor interest after the country's equity markets rose around 18 per cent following the latest election results. India's democratic elections, which includes more than 700 million voters across 26 states, resulted ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

Maritime merger saves $1m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Maritime Super may be able to save more than $1 million in administrative costs as a result of the merger in March, according to initial estimates. Peter Robertson, chief executive at Maritime Super, said the merger between the Stevedoring Employees ...

FPA and Bannister Mansfield settle in court

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Bannister Mansfield have settled in court and the financial planning firm's director, Gavin Murphy, has apologised for the ads placed in the media. The FPA started proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... index contract was 26 points lower at 3,808 on volume of 11,239 contracts. Senior client adviser at Austock Securities, Michael Heffernan, said the fall was due to mixed commodity prices and a weak lead from Wall Street. "The materials sector is doing ...

Cbus CEO competes for UN PRI seat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
AustralianSuper has nominated Cbus chief executive David Atkin to sit on the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) board. Atkin replaced Sandy Grant as chief executive at Cbus in November 2007. Prior to that position, Atkin worked ...

AIST chair set sights on UN PRI board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chair, Ian Robertson, has nominated for a position on the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) board. Local Government Superannuation (LGS) trustee, Robertson was integral ...

Plus Capital eyes offshore managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... maybe a single manager multi strategy fund as well." The group is made up of other partners, which besides Wild, includes Michael Dorph and Tim Baker. Dorph and Baker previously worked at Westpac I equity derivative and risk respectively while Roberts ...