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Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... 'fossil free superannuation fund'. Since the UN Climate Summit, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) - which represents big institutional investors such as AMP Capital, AustralianSuper, Colonial First State, BT Group, UniSuper, HESTA, Cbus and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... or 0.67 per cent, at 5,298.5 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished little changed, rallying somewhat from a big mid-session drop as investors looked ahead to the US jobs report for September. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 3.66 ...

First hard MySuper APRA data released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Superannuation regulator APRA has just released its first set of hard MySuper statistics and they reveal the transition to MySuper is happening faster than expected and the role of life stage investing bigger than anticipated. There are 116 MySuper ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... up to the plate yesterday on the basis of dividend yields do so again today?" He said the key stocks to watch would be the big four banks and Telstra, which collectively make up around half of the market and are popular with yield-hungry investors. The ...

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou, 42 Below founder Geoff Ross and founder and host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. They will be joined by The Body-Brain Performance Institute executive ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... said the decision to limit the coal screen to more than one third of total revenue was a practical measure. "There are some big companies that have coal in their portfolios." Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton will both remain in LGS' investable universe. However ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

AIST attacks big-bank default grandfathering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Bank-owned retail funds should be forced to roll all their default superannuation members out of high-fee products into low-fee MySuper products, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). AIST head of executive manager ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower amid ongoing Aussie dollar weakness, a fall in commodity prices and soft leads from US equities. Wall Street stocks finished lower overnight after a monthly US consumer confidence index fell for the first ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... around 90% of its value at the bottom nearly three years later (July 1932). There was October 1987 - my personal initiation to big stock market falls - the Dow plunged 22.6% (the biggest one-day percentage drop on the Dow) on Black Monday the 13th. And ...