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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 ...

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... currently carried by the UK. Concern among sovereign bond investors should however be the medium term real risk of mainstream political parties questioning their place in the EU - something which has already occurred in the Netherlands. "The long-term ...

UN Responsible Investment head joins Emerald launch

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) research, the average Responsible Investment (RI) fund outperforms its mainstream counterpart and benchmarks in every category in all time periods across Australian shares, international shares and balanced ...

Adviser obligations need to be institutionalised: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... community, we aren't going to get our message across," said Klipin, who would like to see the branded series run on mainstream commercial TV this year.

Australian Ethical Investment appoints executive director

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... spokesperson for the firm told Financial Standard. "We want to enhance and extend our relationships amongst both ethical and mainstream financial advisers...we feel we have plenty to offer the institutional and "Third Sector" investor markets. As such ...

Managed accounts get FOFA boost

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Managed Account Providers (IMAP) recently said the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms is making managed accounts mainstream for advisers with IAS reporting higher levels of advisers adopting the technology. Eight new private label services have ...