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Amnesty highlights Shell governance shortfall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is under fire from a human rights group for not disclosing key information around its operations in the Niger Delta - potentially exposing fund managers to unknown corporate governance issues. The Amnesty International letter ...

Soc Gén named best SRI brokerage firm: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale, UBS and CrA(C)dit Agricole Cheuvreux have topped the list of broker firms for the work on socially responsible investment and sustainability research. The annual Thomson Reuters Extel Survey, which polled more than 1,400 ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

Super funds to re-jig mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
A majority 64 per cent of Australia's major superannuation funds are looking to change their investment mandates to factor in climate change issues, a survey found. The Climate Institute and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... raised to 15 per cent, lending support to industry associations that have long lobbied for higher SG. Mercer's SG Opinion Poll of 1,000 working Australians in March this year found 69 per cent of respondents supported an increase in the minimum SG contribution ...

LGsuper members satisfied with fund

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... Queensland local government fund LGsuper have given the super fund two thumbs up for its products and services. Results from a poll conducted late last year by MCR show 86 per cent of 850 LGsuper members rated the fund as "good" or "excellent" for its ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Speculation the government will cut back the health insurance rebate for high income earners lends weight to where it might wield the superannuation axe. A story published this morning in the Australian newspaper reports that the health insurance rebate ...

Investment mandates to factor climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Nine out of ten major super funds have changed or plan to review their investment mandates to reflect climate change issues, a survey found. An Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Climate Institute survey found 95 per cent of ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... retention bonuses. Some of them pocketed the money...and left anyway. It is not a surprise then, as Bloomberg reports, that a poll by CNN and Opinion Research Corp revealed 41 per cent of Americans think the US government should leave distressed lenders ...

FIX adoption critical to growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... ITG head of sales and trading in Australia and a speaker at this week's FIX Protocol Electronic Trading conference, said a poll conducted at the event showed 26 per cent of industry personnel still place orders with their brokers through telephone. "For ...