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Responsible investment plagues super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... investment approaches being rolled out by Australia's largest superfunds. "Although not yet universally taken up, the research provides an insight into the strategies and approaches taken to embed environmental, social and governance (ESG) and ethical ...

Listed infrastructure has winners and losers

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... toppled with the lack of a commonly accepted benchmark. In its recent Infrastructure Securities Sector Review, Lonsec Research showed significant dispersion in returns across infrastructure sub-sectors, throwing up a number of winners and losers. Lonsec ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
Australia construction work done This will be a drag. A drag on Australian third quarter GDP that is. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the value of total construction work done fell by 4.9% in the September quarter following a ...

Education alliances to drive growth: FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... the FPA chapters sponsored 17 students from across the country to attend the Congress. "We are also conducting student research to better understand what they need and the kind of resources and support they would like from us. We're developing collateral ...

Hyperion opens fund to retail market

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... more importantly, their growth, from offshore operation," Samway said. "As a result we have always done a great deal of research into the global competitors to our domestic stocks, so it seemed like a logical extension to further that research and invest ...

CFS introduces same day RoA functionality

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
Colonial First State has introduced a new same day Record of Advice (RoA) generation functionality to FirstNet Adviser, allowing advisers to generate an RoA in as little as 30 minutes. The added functionality comes six months after CFS first launched ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
US existing home sales Are American homebuyers front-running the expected increase in the fed funds rate next month? Existing home sales jumped by 2.0% to a seasonally adjusted annualised rate of 5.6 million units in October. This is the highest level ...

Investors driving impact demand

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... qualitative review of the parody of salaries for men and women. "One of the reasons this fund was created was because of the research we had undertaken that compares performance of companies who really have demonstrated diversity as a key tenant of their ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
Australia CB leading indicator The Conference Board leading economic index for Australia advanced by 0.5% to a reading of 104.5 in September from 104.0 in the previous month. This is the highest reading since April last year and takes the year-on-year ...

Super choice needs more than five minutes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... in retirement savings accrued by your employees, if they remain in the same fund over the long term," Hill said. "Our research also shows that superannuation and associated insurance is an opportunity to make a company more attractive to current and ...