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AusSuper grants London property mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
AustralianSuper has appointed TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) to manage its London office property investment strategy. TH Real Estate, which is 60% owned by TIAA-CREF and 40% by Henderson Global Investors, already manages AustralianSuper's ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

FSC puts pressure on Ross ahead of FWC court hearing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council has challenged Fair Work Commission (FWC) President Iain Ross to declare whether he intends to stand down from the superannuation expert panel. The letter, which requests a number of clarifications on comments Ross made ...

ASIC reviews misleading promotion of hybrids

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
Hybrid securities providers can expect a high level of scrutiny from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), according to the regulator's chairman Greg Medcraft. Speaking at the Stockbrokers Association of Australia's annual conference ...

Hunter Hall divests from fossil fuels

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
Ethical investor Hunter Hall has become the second fund in two days to announce it will introduce fossil fuel screening into its investment criteria, following a similar announcement by AMP Capital on Wednesday. However, while AMP Capital's screen focuses ...

Market Vectors Property ETF receives SQM rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
The Market Vectors Australian Property ETF has received a four-star superior rating from SQM Research. Market Vectors ETFs is the exchange traded fund business of Van Eck Global. "The rating confirms the robust nature of our Market Vectors Australian ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
AMP Capital's new fossil fuel screening criteria will have little direct impact on investments, resulting in just two divestments and the exclusion of only one extra ASX 200-listed Australian company from the 'investible universe'. Yesterday AMP Capital ...

Fresh Orient Capital acquisitions expand European operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
Australian investor services provider Orient Capital has pushed further into the European market with the acquisition of London-based capital markets intelligence business King Worldwide Investor Relations. The group has also acquired a 50% interest ...

ANZ streamlines OnePath's OneCare Express

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
ANZ has updated the application process for its electronic insurance application tool OneCare Express to make it faster and more intuitive for advisers and their clients. ANZ head of life insurance Gerard Kerr said that a new underwriting engine cuts ...

Northern Trust wins LUCRF $220m ESG mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
Northern Trust Asset Management has won a $220 million mandate from the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF). The World ex Australia index mandate, managed by the fund's international business Northern Trust Global Investments Limited ...