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Banks come out on top for climate change disclosure

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Australian banks are one of the best performing sectors for climate-related disclosure and sustainability reporting according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. In its 10th annual corporate sustainability report, which assesses the ...

Aussie agriculture reaches new highs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Agriculture Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights opportunities for institutional investors as the total value of Australia's agriculture production continues to rise. During 2015-16, the gross value of Australian agriculture ...

MetLife restructures US and UK operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Global life insurer MetLife will cease to write individual insurance policies in the United States, having established a new firm to house its domestic retail life and annuity insurance divisions. MetLife received final regulatory approval from the ...

Responsible investment continues to gain acceptance among investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
A growing acceptance of responsible investment by millennials, women, affluent investors and institutional investors is moving the approach from being considered niche and product-specific to one which has broader appeal among global institutional and ...

Looking ahead key to flipping bad money habits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
About 10% of Australians struggle so much with debt that it directly impacts their wellbeing and UBank believes widespread financial mismanagement is the result of a severe disconnect from our future selves. UBank, NAB's digital-only offering, conducted ...

Advisers backing fractional property investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
A financial adviser dealer group has embraced the fractional investment opportunities presented by DomaCom after clients successfully purchased two properties in Victoria and Queensland via HUB24. A crowdfunding campaign by GPS Wealth clients saw DomaCom ...

Quantifeed launches portfolio for car lovers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
Investment and robo-advice platform provider Quantifeed has created a model portfolio that taps the growing global industry of driverless cars. The model portfolio comprises companies that are leading the development of self-driving cars, including ...

Cbus slashes insurance premiums

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
Industry super fund Cbus has signed a new insurance deal with TAL that will see premiums decrease substantially. Premiums per unit of death and TPD cover for most members will go down by 25%, while for 15 to 44-year-old manual labour members; cover ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

OC Funds Management wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
A multi-manager appointed OC Funds Management to oversee its micro-cap strategy. Melbourne-based Alpha Fund Managers appointed OC to help deliver long-term capital growth by investing in Australian and New Zealand companies with a market capitalisation ...