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NZ Super responds to Australian social media laws

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... announcing our engagement initiative, companies need to fulfil their duty of care to prevent harm to their users and to society. "These companies' social license to operate has been severely damaged. Companies need to take more responsibility for what ...

Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... and Kiwi Wealth have joined forces to ask Facebook to consider its duty of care to prevent harm to their users and to society. NZ Super Fund chief executive Matt Whineray said: "We have been profoundly shocked and outraged by the Christchurch terror ...

Countdown to 2019 FICAP Rockstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... towards an education and away from negative environments are much more likely to become more constructive participants in society (and by extension the economy)," FICAP organising committee founding member and BT Financial Group head of investment research ...

NAB most distrusted bank in Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... benchmark for Australia's banks. The real question is what happens next," Levine said. "Without trust there is no civil society. The Australian population has now expressed their anger and distrust with Australian banks. It is now time to rebuild that ...

AMP Capital appoints managing director Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... with Fidante Partners and Perennial Investment Partners. She also currently serves as deputy chair on the board of CIMA Society of Australia.

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Colonial First State has topped up a Morgan Stanley mandate, as it fine-tunes the fixed interest exposures in its employer super's lifestage options. Morgan Stanley's Total Return Strategy is now managing $134 million for the FirstChoice Employer ...

CFS swaps global equities managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
Colonial First State has appointed a $600 million mandate as it reviews the manager lineup for its $3.8 billion multi-manager global equities fund. In a change that became active last Friday, Boston-based quant manager Arrowstreet Capital took over ...

Former Liberal Party leader joins Islamic super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... relationship that supports the core values of Crescent Wealth in building a better world through investments that benefit society, and supports the well-being of our future generations," Mercer Australia chief executive Ben Walsh said. The fund currently ...

IFM Investors chair lays out priorities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... want to deploy the capital we have [on projects that] deliver returns to super members but also help the economy and the society." As an example, Combet cited the Melbourne Airport rail link from Southern Cross station in which IFM Investors put up $5 ...

Asset managers join diversity program

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... Competition to be run in universities across the country in partnership with the University Network of Investing and Trading society," she said. "We're looking forward to placing the competition's winning team in one of our partners' summer internship ...