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Technology and mergers threaten insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... insurance industry is at a tipping point and up until now, insurers felt regulation would protect them from disruptive market forces, but that is no longer the case. "In the year ahead, we will see further consolidation. The insurers who prosper will ...

Major US pension fund divests Australian coal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... outweighs the ability of thermal coal companies to continue to create long-term value." Environmental finance group Market Forces has called on Australian super funds and asset managers to follow the move and divest from Australian coal companies. "Almost ...

NAB reduces fossil fuel exposure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of two degrees Celsius," the report said. Analysing the report, Market Forces executive director Julien Vincent noted that NAB is the only Australian bank to explicitly acknowledge the necessity of reducing ...

More transparency needed on fossil fuel investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Financial services activist group Market Forces is imploring superannuation funds to vote against remuneration reports at the upcoming AGMs of several fossil fuel companies. The plea is based around company executives proposing to receive bonuses for ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... many weeks. This time the focus is centred on super funds' investment portfolios with a survey from activist group Market Forces showing 86% of Australians want to know where their superannuation is fully invested. From more than 1000 respondents the ...

Managed accounts to disrupt fund businesses to the tune of $60bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... reading for both fund managers and financial advisers with or without a managed accounts offering. "We identify six market forces now driving the adoption of managed accounts and they could deliver around 75% of industry net flows," noted the report. ...

AFA heralds adaptability

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... strategy, culture and architecture of their advice practices," he said. "Delegates considered the key trends and market forces through the lenses of political, market, economic, digital and consumer shifts in the advice landscape. These are important ...

AustralianSuper launches new SRI investment option

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... environment and climate caused by fossil fuels, and human and labour rights," the statement said. Financial activist group Market Forces welcomed the announcement but said the vast majority of the fund's members "will be left holding sinking fossil fuel ...

Divestment integral for better returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... investors should be questioning their investments in fossil fuel stocks following the collapse of Peabody, according to Market Forces. The financial activist group said the long-expected bankruptcy of Peabody should serve as a "cautionary tale" to Australians ...

Super funds losing billions to fossil fuels

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
Activist group Market Forces has published a report estimating 15 Australian superannuation funds have lost about $5.6 billion on fossil fuel investments since 2014. The recent study also found losses from fossil fuel investments may have cost some ...