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Philanthropic foundation names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... $181,000 in new grants to 19 not-for-profit organisations in 2018. This included special drought relief grants for struggling farming communities. Churcher was a strong contributor to those efforts having led the fundraising for Future2 in South Australia ...

ASIC offers fee relief to drought-affected farmers

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... According to Rockhampton financial planner Rory Condon, about half of his firm's 1500-strong client base are from farming families and most are beef cattle or sheep graziers. "Many of them are struggling. The demand for restocking cattle goes down ...

Drought-hit farmers turn to advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... with the impact. The numbers are startling yet they don't come close to measuring the human impact drought has had on farming families - some have had to kill cattle and part with farms handed down through generations. So what can advisers do to ...

Agricultural asset manager promotes new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... is looking for total investment up to $100 million to acquire farmland and water rights and lease them to third-party farming businesses. The fund is aimed at wholesale investors and its minimum investment size is $100,000. Its investment strategy will ...

Bell AM recruits senior global equities analyst

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... an investment manager. Before that, he was an investment analyst at Scottish Widows and a director at Western Rosella Farming. He was also a senior investment analyst at Global Value Investors and an investment analyst at Boston Company Asset Management. ...

Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... more than $1 billion in Australia since 2007. "That global investors with big reputations think they can make a go of farming in Australia, and are prepared to invest significant amounts for the long haul, is encouraging," Anthony said. "Australia is ...

CBA partners for agribusiness pilot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... decisions. Decisions not just based around chasing yield, but more importantly, profitability." "By collaborating with their farming team of accountant, production advisor and CBA agri-banker all within the Figured application, the Australian farmer ...

UK pensions not fussed about in-housing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... increasingly turning to in-housing of their investment capabilities, the UK pensions industry remains fairly comfortable farming out management of its assets to third-party managers. That's the main takeaway from a new survey by Cerulli Associates in ...

Rabobank has new local chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... has had the opportunity to gain in-depth experience across the breadth of the business, working with our Country Banking farming clients as well as Wholesale corporate food and agribusiness clients and small to medium enterprises operating in the food ...

Dimensional launches ESG trust

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling, alcohol, child labour, cluster munitions, pornography and factory farming. With regards to governance, Dimension aims to ensure company managements have the right incentives to maximise shareholder ...