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ASIC cracks down on CFD trading

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... ASIC's model will address four aspects impacting investors: ensuring client suitability, disclosing counterparty-risk, stewardship of client monies and practices where issuers make margin calls on clients. The benchmark draws on similar disclosure requirements ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... the strategic review process, and fully endorses the outcome," said Hobart. Nikko AM said it will provide Tyndall stewardship but have largely run its businesses in "a highly decentralised manner". As one of the largest fund managers in Japan, the group ...

Christian Super puts water on investment list

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... its sustainability is something Christian Super is also concerned about, so much so, that we have developed a water stewardship policy for our investments," said Murphy. With pollution and climate change threatening to further the scarcity of water ...

Advisers champion responsible investing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... weight in terms of demanding high standards," she said. F&C Investments, which runs an "ethical fund" called the F&C Stewardship International, is legally required to respond to letters from investors and advisers on their concerns about company holdings ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... regulators, we have also accepted that institutional shareholders could have done more," he said. He pointed to the UK's new Stewardship Code, which encourages fund managers to report, monitor and engage with listed companies and publicise their results. ...

Aviva Investors and Cbus win awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... category and Cbus has taken out the superannuation category at the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies 2010 Investment Stewardship Awards. The awards recognise achievement in product innovation, service, investment philosophy, corporate governance ...

HSBC's chief moves to Hong Kong

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... strategically important centres for the company. "Based in London, where we are domiciled and regulated, I will oversee the stewardship of our business and our globally strategic relationships with governments, regulators and with our owners. Based in ...

Trust launches strategy review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... time to carry out a fundamental review of the company's business model and strategy given 30 years of Sweeney family stewardship and the current financial conditions. Trust is a financial services company that provides estate and trust services, financial ...

Legalsuper hires investment expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... logical and prudent step in evolving our investment governance in light of the substantial growth in assets under our stewardship and the increasing diversity of legalsuper's investment portfolio," he said. Legalsuper has more than 25 per cent of its ...

LGsuper members satisfied with fund

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... employer contribute to their account if they left the local government. Good returns, low fees and having a stable stewardship topped the list on why members opt to remain with the fund. Around 23 per cent said good/solid returns were an attraction of ...