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Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical Investment has awarded $300,000 in community grants this month to support a number of causes both in Australia and globally. The manager is committed to donate 10% of its pre-tax profits to organisations that make a positive difference ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland Business School showed less than 0.3% of MySuper assets are within the agriculture sector as of 30 June 2014. It also found 0.44% of ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Sunsuper has appointed a former Queensland treasurer and a former Macquarie Bank executive director to its board, increasing the number of independent directors ahead of proposed federal government super board changes. Joining Sunsuper this month are ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was founded in Brisbane in 1997, to invest in the research ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... public was also invited to vote for a "People's Choice Winner" from among the finalists. The winners were the Going To School program in India that teaches children about financial literacy, the Shanghai F-road Commercial Services program that helps ...

Member activism could hurt super returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... of 200 supporters when HESTA made public its decision to divest. NGS Super has over 101,000 members, many of which are school teachers: "If we went out and did a poll, I know what the answers would have been," Rodwell-Ball said. But he added that the ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... home from Europe that he remembered the "dummy stock market" competition for the Herald Sun he had participated in in high school that he realised what he wanted to be: a stockbroker. There was just one problem: aside from "selling tea and coffee" at ...

AFA Female Excellence semi-finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... late stage. The award, developed in 2011 as a joint initiative by the AFA and TAL and supported by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), recognises and showcases the talents and contributions of women in financial advice to their clients ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... (US$6.8 billion) from hedge funds since the beginning of 2015. Professor Stephen Brown from the New York University Stern School of Business has been studying hedge funds for close to four decades and has even testified before the House of Representatives ...