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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 ...

Government explains Challenger annuity mix-up

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has given its reasons for changing the way it assesses Challenger's Care Annuity, saying it had mistakenly been assessing it on the grounds that investors in the annuity could not get their capital back. However ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) has appointed two senior executives from the financial services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior ...

EY appoints family office specialist

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
EY has appointed a new partner to lead its Oceania family office services practice. Richard Boyce has more than 24 years' experience advising high-net-worth individuals and families including in establishing and running family offices. As a fifth-generation ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has awarded the 2015 FPEC academic research grants to academics from Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Recipients of the grants will be awarded $5,000 each to support the research ...

Foundation raises over $1m for biomedical research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have awarded over $1 million to biomedical research via the distribution of the annual Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research and 13 Establishment Grants. As the trustee of the foundations, Perpetual ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Fund managers must offer their super fund clients more bespoke services if they want to stay in the game, according to Acadian head of investments in Australia David Walsh. Walsh said the move among larger super funds towards more in house investment ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...

Cutting edge data tool finds super members most likely to defect

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The latest generation of data analytics software can tell super fund bosses who is most likely to leave their fund, and what to do to make them stay. Dr David Black is head of advanced analytics at Empirics. With over 10 years of academic experience ...

AMP Horizons launches online masters with Griffith University

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
AMP's financial planning academy Horizons will launch an online masters program with Griffith University, starting from November 2014. The program combines academic training and practical experience and offers candidates a pathway to gain a university ...