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Japan joins Asia Region Funds Passport

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Japan and five other countries from the Asia Pacific region will join the Asia Region Funds Passport, which will ease the trade of managed funds within economies in Asia. South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Australia will also participate ...

ANZ completes $720m capital raising

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
ANZ has announced it has completed its $720 million share purchase plan offer. The bank's statement to the ASX said it will "accept all eligible applications and issue approximately $720 million of ANZ shares at $26.50 per share." The offer was originally ...

Gradual progress on super fund digital engagement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Superannuation funds have made only incremental progress towards greater digital engagement with their member base over the last 12 months. Technology, operations and risk consultancy firm IQ Group surveyed Australia's top 50 super funds with combined ...

Vision Super joins cost cutting frenzy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Vision Super has brought down member fees by cutting operating costs by 42% and investment costs by 25%. The fund for local government and water authority employees has said that further reductions are achievable. So far, cost cuts mean that members ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... companies in its portfolio. But Transfield doesn't have this luxury which is why it has reportedly invited its remaining institutional investors to visit its Nauru and Manus Island facilities. Given the secrecy provisions that cover employees of those ...

First State Super socially responsible options go green

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
First State Super has divested from fossil fuels in its socially responsible investment options and is researching the resilience of its broader portfolio to climate change. Members who choose the socially responsible investment option will not be exposed ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has made a multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was ...

UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... been a senior investment analyst for the past four years. David Redford-Bell had been the director of retail and institutional relationships at BlackRock's iShares for over nine years. Redford-Bell will be based in Queensland and as national sales manager ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Wall Street Journal's Financial Inclusion Challenge, supported by the MetLife Foundation, has been recognised by The Asia Society in Hong Kong. The Challenge is a global project launched in Asia to recognise innovative, sustainable, scalable strategies ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...