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New Perennial small caps active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... stocks and exclude companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from fossil fuels, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, forestry activities, gambling, modern slavery and unhealthy fast foods. "Sustainable investing is increasingly an important focus for ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... domestic demand, which more than offset a positive contribution from net trade." On the production side, both agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors and industrial sector shrank, while the service sector had been "substantially stable". Not so, says ...

LGIAsuper bolsters infrastructure investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... from Utilities of Australia. The Port of Portland is situated in the resource-rich Green Triangle region, surrounded by forestry, grain, livestock, aluminium and fertiliser products. About $2 billion of exports passes the port each year. The Queensland ...

Former wealth group chief joins Macrovue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... Before that, he was national chief executive of environmental NGO Greening Australia. Bristow was also initially head of forestry managing investment schemes at CBA before becoming CommSec's chief operating officer, a role he held for three years. In ...

NZ Super Fund posts record returns

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... rally in global equity markets, the Guardians' strategic tilting program, its significant investment in North Island forestry business Kaingaroa Timberlands, and the Guardians' internally-managed credit mandates. Chief executive Adrian Orr said the fund ...

First Super names new co-chair

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... a director on First Super's board for four years and was previously a chief executive of the Victorian Association of Forestry Industries. She is also a director of Skills Impact, and has been a director of the Australian Forest Products Association ...

NZ Super Fund posts decent full-year return

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... its active investments in timber and infrastructure. The fund's single largest investment, a 42% stake in New Zealand forestry business Kaingaroa Timberlands, increased in value by NZ$82 million to NZ$1.49 billion. The sovereign wealth fund, which is ...

EG partners with leading Japanese homebuilder

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... Japanese homebuilder. Under the terms of the JV, Daiwa House Group, its Australian subsidiary Cosmos Australia and Sumitomo Forestry will acquire 75% of EG's Drummoyne development site, for $33 million. The 15,850sqm development site has a proposed scheme ...

Cbus Royal Commission findings impact industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... relationships with industry super funds. In his scathing final report, Commissioner Dyson Heydon said the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (CFMEU) heavy membership at industry super fund Cbus would have influenced three fund executives ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... privatisation program which included the float of QR National, now known as Aurizon, the $600 million sale of Queensland's forestry plantations, the $2.3 billion sale of the Port of Brisbane, and the $1.8 billion sale of the Abbot Point Coal Terminal. ...