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Financial services given hand to protect seniors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... 325,000 existing pensioners lose all or part of their pension in 2017. National Seniors said the Australian National University's Tax and Transfer Policy Institute show the changes penalise savers outside of superannuation; create perverse incentives ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... sign that the debate and public perception around the issue has significantly shifted since the Australian National University (ANU) caused national outrage when it decided to pull $16 million from resources companies. Since then, Local Government Super ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... Locally on Monday, Reserve Bank assistant governor (economic) Christopher Kent give a speech to the Australian National University in Canberra. In equities news, grocery retailer Metcash releases its full year results. In Australia, the market on Friday ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... Victoria University, Glasgow University, Syracuse University, Soas University of London and the Australian National University - to respond to the growing fossil fuel divestment movement, led by the international not-for-profit 350.org. Speaking to Financial ...

PIMCO appoints vice president, client analytics

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... AustralianSuper, Commonwealth Bank and AMP Capital Investors, and has lectured in statistics at the Australian National University.

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... divestment action that caused the most controversy was much smaller in scale: the decision by the Australian National University to divest from seven mining companies. The decision caused outrage in the resources industry, the media and even the government ...

Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... minister Malcolm Fraser and former Liberal leader John Hewson, have signed a statement supporting the Australian National University's right to divest from companies. The statement appeared as an advertisement in Wednesday's Canberra Times and is expected ...

ANU divests seven companies, seeks equities manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
The Australian National University (ANU) has announced it will divest its holdings in seven mining companies, following a review of its domestic equity investments. The university also announced it plans to outsource its domestic equity investment management ...

ANU enlists CAER for ESG research

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Investment Office of the Australian National University (ANU) has enlisted the services of research group CAER to research and rate the companies in which invests according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The announcement ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... original plan then Franc's life would likely be unrecognisable. Majoring in political science at the Australian National University (ANU), Franc initially had ambitions to work in foreign affairs with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ...