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ANZ taps clean investing with green bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Clean investing gains momentum in Australia as ANZ issues its first green bond and Local Government Super (LGS) joins the global Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC). ANZ's first green bond will fund projects that have positive environmental or ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
The US infrastructure crisis is creating significant opportunities for investment, with two players in the Australian market racing to list global infrastructure funds on the ASX. Speaking at the AMP Capital infrastructure roundtable in Sydney, head ...

CFA Societies wants industry professionals to swear oath

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... of recent scandals. "High standards of personal ethics and regard for market integrity are critical to building the world-class industry; without them, we will not learn the lessons of the past and our industry will again find itself scrutinised for ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Institutions' demand for alternative multi-asset real return strategies presents a cross-border opportunity for both Australian fund managers offshore and overseas fund managers at home. That was the conclusion reached by Perpetual following its recent ...

Plan sponsors have fiduciary obligations: SCOTUS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... InvestmentNews: "Share classes are such a hot item, plan sponsors need to look at that periodically and document that the share class, revenue sharing and allocation methods are fair." With some retail super funds in Australia, under the watch of the ...

AMP Capital in the hunt for new CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
AMP is conducting a global search to find a new chief executive to drive the group's funds management division with a focus on expansion in Asia. AMP Capital chief executive Stephen Dunne will retire later in the year after 12 years in the role, the ...

Investec launches multi-asset fund for instos

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Investec Asset Management has launched a total return global multi-asset strategy aimed at institutional investors. The Investec Diversified Growth (Australian) strategy will be managed within Investec's multi-asset strategies, with Michael Spinks and ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... everyone's interests that we get the settings right, define clear objectives for super and move to a point where we have a world-class retirement income system that ideally has bi-partisan political support," Garcia said.

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... market. The GFC has caused people, globally and in Australia, to think a lot more about capital security, yield, proper asset class diversification, and outcome focused investing, and this has led them towards fixed income investments. This thinking ...