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Sunsuper makes two senior appointments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... recent roles include managing director positions with Mortgage Choice, Permanent Trustee Company and the Heritage Building Society (now Heritage Bank), as well as a range of executive management roles at Westpac. He also currently holds a range of directorships ...

Melbourne planner launching crowd-funded positivity campaign

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Melinda Houghton is launching Positivity for Planners to raise awareness about the value financial advisers contribute to society. "The simple message is that financial planning is generally a great thing for people, that the minority are 'dodgy', and ...

MyState appoints head of broker services

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... Sims will be responsible for leading the mortgage broker sales and service strategy of MyState Bank and The Rock Building Society. She joins from St George Bank, where she has been state manager for NSW and ACT mortgage broking for the past two and a ...

Second Gwen Fletcher award winner named

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... Fletcher was also key in the merger between the International Association of Financial Planners (IAFP) and the Australian Society of Investment and Financial Advisers (ASIFA) to become the Financial Planning Association of Australia in 1992. She also ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... while about one third of managed funds in India are distributed through non-aligned financial advisers, according to the Society of Financial Planners of India. Fixed interest funds account for 57% of the market followed by 16% in short term money market ...

Shareholder primacy a myth: Governance Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... The paper examines whether stakeholder interests - which include broader categories such as communities, consumers and society in general - should be dealt with in corporations law, or by social policy intervention. It explores a number of areas in which ...

Standard Life Investments names head of new infra debt team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... new infrastructure debt team in its London office. Former head of project finance (public sector) at Nationwide Building Society Jeremy Allcock will lead the team and assume responsibility for investment into the asset class. He has 17 years' experience ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... efficiency, sustainable land use and climate resilient development, thereby benefitting our clients and beneficiaries, and society as a whole," Signatories included the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS ...

Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... efficiency, sustainable land use and climate resilient development, thereby benefitting our clients and beneficiaries, and society as a whole." Its recommendations included: introduction of carbon pricing; better regulatory support for the creation of ...

QBE to invest $100 million in social benefit bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... the vanguard of efforts to catalyse a global market for investments that have the potential to create real benefits for society. "This is not a simple redirection of responsibilities and capital. It is an opportunity to transform our approach to social ...