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Showing 331 - 340 of 2016 results for "Mine"

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... the Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) - run by AgCap and managing investments for AustralianSuper, AMP Capital Investors, Mine Wealth + Wellbeing, Christian Super, and the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund among others. Last month ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
As the valuations of residential property and bank stocks have risen, so too has the risk that they will face a snap-back that could trigger a recession in the Australian economy, according to Lazard Asset Management. "House prices in Australia are ...

Former CFP GM joins industry super fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... Financial Planning (CFP) general manager Harry Mitchell has signed on as an industry superannuation fund chief executive, joining Mine Wealth + Wellbeing from May. Mitchell led CFP for three-and-a-half years and entered the position after ASIC placed ...

Norwegian pension fund drops 52 coal companies

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
Norges Bank has announced that 52 coal companies, including two Australian ones, will be excluded from the roughly $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. The exclusions came after the introduction in February of a new "product-based coal criterion" ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Brazil unemployment The unemployment rate in Latin America's biggest economy jumped to 8.2% in February from 7.6% in the previous month. This is slightly higher than expectations for a rise to 8.1% but is the highest since May 2009. Hardly surprising ...

AMMA adds voice to superannuation choice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
AMMA (Australian Mines and Metals Association) has welcomed proposed legislation to ensure unions cannot stop Australian employees choosing their own superannuation fund. In response to the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Choice of Fund) Bill ...

Emslie departs AIST board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... directors," Garcia said. Other changes to the board include the appointment of trustee elected directors Catherine Bolger (Mine Wealth + Wellbeing) and Craig Peate (Local Government Super), and the appointment of staff elected director Mark Puli (ESS ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... Higgins from PIMCO won the ANZ People's Choice Award for her energetic reprisal of a classic, Guns and Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine'. There was no shortage of talent onstage: Tim Sanderson from Count won the Challenger Best Male Artist award for his take ...

Industry fund doubles investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
After flagging its investment team will expand in 2016, Mine Wealth + Wellbeing has appointed five new professionals to begin over the coming months. The $10 billion industry superannuation fund now doubles its investment team from five to 10, with ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... world where low and/or declining prices have become the norm, headlines like these are sure to catch attention as it did mine... until you discover that Britain's headline inflation rate a year ago was a whopping 0.3%. We all know what this means, the ...