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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 ...

REST activates growth strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
The $13 billion REST Superannuation fund has made a radical change to its growth and defensive asset allocation split - jumping from 67/33 to today's 78/22 in less than 9 months. According to Damian Hill, chief executive of REST, the fund is increasingly ...

UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
UK based, Norwich Union is running a competition targeting university graduates to find the next generation of financial advisers. Norwich Union, soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University ...

ASIC seeks Storm liquidation

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has applied to place Storm Financial into liquidation after the firm's former directors posted a "misleading" memorandum on their website. This application follows the Storm Financial's former ...

IMCA debates investment risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The Investments Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia has invited the heads of various investment consulting firms, including overseas-based expert Don Ezra from Russell, to a roundtable discussion on investment risk to be held in Sydney ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Indices that seek to describe a company's governance credentials through quantitative measures are poor indicators of future investment returns. A major paper published in the Columbia Law Review, 'The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices' ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...

PIR sold to Aegis

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Specialist research house Property Investment Research has been bought by Aegis Equities Research. According to an email that was circulated among PIR clients, Aegis plans to continue running PIR as a standalone business. However, there are "a number ...

WHK and Macquarie form partnership

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
WHK Group and Macquarie Private Wealth have entered a strategic partnership - paving the way for Macquarie to become a holder of the planning group within the next five years. According to a joint press statement, the deal will see Macquarie commit ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
US First Lady, Michelle Obama, shows us the future - and it does not look good. Wall Street and European equities tumbled again while we were sleeping. Part of the reason was disappointment that the much-awaited Chinese medicine was not potent enough ...