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UK to ban exotic retail investment products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... policy, risk and research at the FSA, said, "Product risks can be much greater on UCIS and similar products than on more mainstream investments and we have found that the majority of retail promotions and sales fall a long way short of our existing standards." ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... markets. "The [UN] PRI believe that this will assist in their endeavor of ensuring that responsible investment will become mainstream." ESG investing has been highlighted recently, with the Australian Greens party putting a bill before parliament that ...

SFG rolls out FOFA-ready MDA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... net worth and SMSF investors, according to Fenning. "There have been many attempts across the industry to deliver a mainstream managed discretionary account service alongside traditional wrap offerings, and we are very pleased that Colonial has worked ...

Perpetual sells registry business

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Perpetual has sold its registry business to specialist back-office administrator MainstreamBPO as part of its wider restructure. A perpetual spokesperson said that "it was clear that the technology investment required to grow this business ourselves ...

UHNWs target PE, commodities, real estate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... funds. Investment trends of ultra high networth families are important because they historically foreshadow trends in mainstream investing, said IPI. IPI is a subsidiary of Campden Wealth. It has a membership of 345 families with a minimum of $30 million ...

AEI shareholders fight off board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... through all the stakeholders, there has always been an alignment of philosophy which is entirely ethical," he said. "Mainstream and ethical should not be mutually exclusive. I don't think how they invest the money has changed a lot, it's more about how ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... objectives given a deteriorating economy and troubled banking system. In Athens, Greek stocks plunged 6.67 per cent after mainstream parties fell short of a governing majority, putting hard-won agreements to save the country's economy and eurozone membership ...

Securities lending is not short selling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... looking to lower their net trading costs, and it should not be confused with short selling. Securities lending is so mainstream that most exchanges around the world consider it to be best practice, said Natalie Floate, BNP Paribas Securities Services' ...

CAER and GBST launch new ESG tool

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... clients on these issues for sometime, the GBST/CAER offering is novel in its combination of ESG practice within a more mainstream quantitative market information delivery platform. "Its use will not be limited to socially responsible investment portfolios ...

CFSGAM tops global UNPRI rankings

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... responsible investing is the best way to make investment decisions," said McCluskey. "Responsible investment funds and mainstream funds are not different, for us we have every single one of our investment strategies looking at Environmental, Social and ...