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Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... their strategy framework for the future and outline a code of ethics to help ensure the industry acts for the benefit of society as a whole. "To be considered a profession, the investment community should have a code of ethics which puts the needs of ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australia's second social benefit bond (SBB), issued by the Benevolent Society in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac, has closed after raising its target $10 million. The Benevolent Society SBB, which will help fund the ...

Australian Ethical MySuper option approved

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... responsible employers to provide competitive retirement savings options, knowing that they are making a positive impact on society and the planet we live on." Australian Ethical also announced that its superannuation fund has reached the $500 million ...

Over 1 million customers breakup with banks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... a bank, a Roy Morgan Research Consumer Single Source survey found. Also, 18,000 people stopped dealing with a building society, 65,000 stopped dealing with a credit union and 140,000 with some other financial institution. High fees and charges, poor ...

AXA fined for poor advice in the UK

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... more than A$3 million to customers of NAB-owned Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank, as well as West Bromwich Building Society. "It is of fundamental importance that firms providing investment advice take reasonable care to ensure that they give suitable ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

Legalsuper board addition further corrects gender imbalance

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
Industry fund legalsuper has appointed the incoming Law Society of New South Wales president as the latest director on its board. The new appointee Ros Everett is the founding principal of law firm Everett Evans and is currently senior vice president ...

Unclaimed life insurance up by $28 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... the government in previous years can be claimed by making applications to the life insurance company or to the friendly society concerned, ASIC said.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... Australian Centre For Financial Studies. In equities news, BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie is slated to speak at a Asia Society Australia lunch, in Melbourne, and 21st Century Fox (formerly News Corp) posts full year results in the US. In Australia ...

Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee into Corporations and Financial Services, gave a speech to the H R Nichols Society this week where he attacked industry super fund trustees and how default funds are nominated on awards. "If you just take ...