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Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Divestment out of companies that are heavily involved in carbon intensive activities could reach $50 billion over the next five years. Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the global investor group, Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), stated ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... has a negative correlation, US dollar up, commodity prices down. The Fed's lift-off when it comes - be it September, December, or March 2016 - would give the greenback another leg-up. US dollar up, commodity prices...

Bendigo wealth earnings fall 20pct despite acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank cash earnings for its wealth management division are down 20.5%, despite the acquisition of a stake in a superannuation fund. Australia's fifth largest bank reported its results for the year to 30 June 2015 and confirmed that ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
"They see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and think what they want to think." This saying was on full display over the past 24 hours, Virginia... just look at the headlines. Yes, of course, I'm scribbling about the talk of the town ...

Fee error forces Ausbil to pay $18m

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
Ausbil Investment Management overcharged fees of approximately $18 million to investors over the last ten years. Ausbil will have to remediate the fee error to affected investors and has appointed KPMG as an independent advisor to review the compensation ...

Industry fund sponsors Oprah tour

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
A Queensland-based industry superannuation fund is hoping to gain exposure through one of the world's most powerful and recognisable women, Oprah Winfrey. Sunsuper has secured a major sponsorship for Oprah's Australian tour in December and apart from ...

ASFA concerned about board governance timeline

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is concerned about the timeframe for approving transition plans to have at least one-third independent directors on super fund boards. In a letter to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Scratch September. Make that December. That's the Fed lift-off Virginia. And just so you and I don't miss that point, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) even quoted Douglas Borthwick -- head of foreign exchange Chapdelaine & Co - saying that, "I'm ...

IOOF merges two licences

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
IOOF has merged licences My Adviser and Plan B into Consultum and Shadforth. An IOOF spokesperson said, "The reasoning behind the transition of the advisers in both cases is that it makes sense to consolidate smaller licences, such as MyAdviser and ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... these bets come with the attendant convincing rationales for the whys and the wherefores of September, October, November, December or March 2016. Nobody, it seems, listened to Janet's comforting words said many, many times before that the when is not ...