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Bloomberg partners with DFAT for health program

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... also helps to identify specific health "priorities" in a country. The first 18 countries to join the initiative are: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Morocco, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Solomon ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... tourism is increasing in countries like Thailand, the UK, Australia and Japan. "Competing economies such as Vietnam and Bangladesh are also benefitting by gaining global market share from China's withdrawal from certain low-end labour-intensive manufacturing ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... decades, and, as such, action would greatly improve investor confidence. The top five countries in this group are Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and India. Australia's demographic index ranking is 98 out of 168, a somewhat middling performance with ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... interests across the globe. Whether it was dealing with a damaged shipment in Honduras or negotiating a contract in Bangladesh, Sowerby did it all. "I didn't know when I was coming back and I didn't really care because I was learning so much and not ...

LUCRF Super joins global calls to improve worker safety

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
LUCRF Super has joined more than 200 institutional investors globally in signing the Investor Statement on Bangladesh, calling for workplace reform in garment factories in the South Asian country. Behind China, Bangladesh is the second largest garment ...

LGS enhances ESG credentials with Green Bond purchase

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... said. Earlier this year the fund was also one of only two institutional investors to sign the Investor Statement on Bangladesh, calling on brands and retailers to implement the internationally recognised core labour standard of the International Labor ...

Wealth Within targets SMSFs with new platform

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... believed that platform was so strong that they were looking to take it to markets in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh via joint ventures. Wealth Within has partnered organisations such as Lonsec, Leveraged Equities and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank ...

State Street wins $780m LGS mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... awards. The fund also made the news this month when it signed a statement calling for improved working conditions in Bangladesh garment factories. "We have designed an active Australian equities strategy that meets LGS' need to increase targeted net ...

LGS takes stand on Bangladesh, gains MySuper licence

ALEX DUNNIN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... Government Super NSW (LGS) has become the first fund in Australia to sign on as a supporter of the 'Investor Statement on Bangladesh,' while also being latest fund to be authorised to offer a MySuper product. LGS has joined over 190 global shareholders ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... opportunities. The ACSI report found a significant shift of investment from emerging markets such as China to LDCs such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, where labour and human rights (LHR) risks are severe. Of the 34 ASX-listed companies surveyed ...