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Ethics Centre to launch FASEA approved course

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... educational experiences. Our hope is that this new course will be widely embraced across the profession - for the good of society and the clients it serves." In its development of the bridging course The Ethics Centre will consult peak industry bodies ...

Corporate super fund names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... Commonwealth Games Foundation. She is currently a director of Bank Australia, which is formerly the CSIRO Co-operative Credit Society and changed its name in 2015. "I am very pleased to be joining TelstraSuper and contributing to the evolution of a fund ...

Institutions fail to adequately manage social risk

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... the wider community. The paper stated: "The basic premise underlying this paper is that relationships with key groups in society are so fundamental to the success of a financial services business, and of such great value, that there should be a systematic ...

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 ...