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Industry funds reject majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
David Murray's recommendation that super fund boards comprise a majority of directors has met with mixed responses from the industry, with the retail side welcoming it but the not-for-profit side broadly rejecting it. Media reports, meanwhile, have ...

Scale not what it used to be

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper awards shortlist for 2014 shows that scale isn't the factor it once was. The 2014 SelectingSuper awards are on again next week in Melbourne and an analysis of the shortlisted finalists shows that boutique and mid-sized funds make ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

Van Eyk suspends redemptions on Blueprint funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Van Eyk has temporarily suspended all applications and redemptions on one of its funds after the underlying manager unexpectedly invested in a portfolio that was not in line with the fund's strategy. The van Eyk Blueprint International Share Fund (VBI) ...

FSC bids to lead retirement income debate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has called for a national retirement income policy. In his keynote speech to the FSC Annual Conference, Brogden said the FSC would embrace the opportunity and lead the debate on taking superannuation ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Governor Glenn lets his jaw drop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens was in Tasmania letting it all rip at the same time that most of us were co-celebrating Dow 17K with our American brethrens on 'Independence Day' eve. On 3 July, Governor Glenn spoke before 'The ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
I clicked, and I clicked, and I clicked but I can't find no... no, no, no... no mention of that which was finger-pointed for yesterday's sharp fall on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia there wasn't any mention of Iraq. Wall Street rebounded overnight despite ...

LUCRF divests $5 million of cluster munition and tobacco

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
LUCRF Super has approved the negative screening and divestment of cluster munition manufacturers and tobacco companies from its investment portfolios. The fund said that it held $4.5 million in cluster munition stocks and $522,000 in tobacco as of January ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
UCA Fund Management will cease to invest directly in companies involved the extraction, refinement and exportation of thermal coal and unconventional oil and gas. The ethical fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will ...