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Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Speculation is growing that Google will directly enter the insurance market. While its interest seems limited to automative insurance the impact of its disruptive approach is expected to impact other insurance classes. Google's interest in car insurance ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" - Robert Burns Happy 2015 to all you gentlereaders. We're back in space - cyberspace that is - and, it seems, so are the economic and financial market uncertainties that littered the dying ...

AMP Capital receives $200m from OPB

HARRY PAGE:  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
... predictable risk-adjusted returns. "AMP Capital's global infrastructure strategy is a great way to gain access to an asset class that is benefiting from unprecedented demand across the globe for infrastructure investment," Pahari added. Investors in ...

We'll underwrite when it suits us: Delaney

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... a senior credit manager, and we'll have two or three people on the team as well. We think loans are an attractive asset class to have in the portfolio. We've done a few of those, but we're looking to do it more broadly and more systematically."

Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
A $23.5 million settlement of a class action related to loans to investors hit by the billion dollar collapse of agribusiness Great Southern has won court approval. The agricultural projects manager, which raised $1.8 billion and managed 45 investment ...

Court approves Premium Income Fund settlement

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
The Federal Court has made orders approving the settlement of the class action against the failed Premium Income Fund (PIF). IMF Bentham confirmed the court's approval of the settlement, but did not say how much PIF unit holders will be receiving as ...

AMP Capital joins mFund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
AMP Capital has joined ASX's mFund Settlement Service, listing six of its funds on the service. This takes the number of fund managers listed on the service to 23, and the number of funds to 70. ASX managed investment services manager Ian Irvine said ...

Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) has made 44 recommendation to increase efficiency, resilience and fair treatment of the financial system. Read below the relevant recommendations for the superannuation, wealth management and funds management industries. ...

Infra committee recommends ISA's inverted bid model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... including super fund members who receive attractive low volatility returns from the high performing infrastructure asset class." The report was tabled in Parliament yesterday.