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Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Ausbil Dexia has signed up for environmental, social and governance (ESG) research services from Canberra-based CAER. The employee-owned, boutique fund manager's ESG product, the Dexia Sustainable Global Equity Fund (DSEF), was established back in 2004 ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... members, who typically have savings timeframes of multiple decades." Regardless of whoever is able to muster the numbers in Canberra in following weeks, when they decide to get down to the business of infrastructure investing and super fund lead public-private ...

AvSuper takes legal action against big fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
Canberra-based super fund AvSuper Pty Ltd (AvSuper) has lodged legal proceedings against Commonwealth Managed Investments Limited (CMIL) and Colonial First State Property Limited (CFSPL) over the meaning of an agreement regarding the super fund's entitlements ...

Election campaign ignores seniors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... older Australians, according interests groups that aim to represent the segment. Speaking outside parliament House in Canberra this morning, largely deserted as most politicians are actively targeting swing seats in Queensland and Western Sydney, the ...

Australian ESG expert claims world-first

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
Canberra-based researcher CAER becomes the first non-European organisation to get a Voluntary Quality Standard (VQS) badge for its work on assessing environmental, social, governance (ESG) and ethical performance analysis of companies. The certification ...

Women in Super help raise $2.1m for breast cancer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... aspects of breast cancer. Record numbers of people took part in the 2010 Mother's Day Classic events in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hobart, Melbourne, Parramatta, Perth and Sydney's Domain. There was also a large increase in participation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... business survey for June. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry appears before the Senate Select Committee on Fuel and Energy in Canberra. The Australian Office of Financial Management is scheduled to auction $200 million of the August 2020 Treasury Indexed Bond ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... news on Tuesday, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia opens its two-day State of the Nation Conference in Canberra, with speakers including Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese, and Resources Minister ...

AIST alerts regulator on misleading campaign against super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... Council of Australia (MCA) currently showing on national TV, print and on YouTube. One ad titled "A retiree's message to Canberra" even shows an elderly man calling the RSPT a "hand grenade" on his savings. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST, which ...

AvSuper unveils intra-fund advice service

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... class order intra-fund superannuation advice relief to trustees on 27 January. Michelle Griffiths, chief executive of the Canberra-based fund, said the fund has spent the last few months training staff, including call-centre employees, in preparation ...