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Employers must do more to promote ethical culture

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... culprit when it comes to lack of trust, more so than any failure of government regulation." Just over a quarter (26%) of Australian respondents said that improved enforcement of existing laws and regulations would help improve investor trust, with 20% ...

Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... (SMSF) sector, Mason reminded delegates of the outperformance of the majority of funds versus funds regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) between 2008 and 2012 and said it was a sector of which stakeholders could be immensely ...

SMSF Association introduces new accreditation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... prior to attaining specialisation. The industry body is also bringing in a Graduate Certificate program and made its Australian Taxation Office (ATO) approved SMSF Association Trustee Education Directive available on its website. The SMSF Association ...

Australian Ethical reappoints NAB custody

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) Asset Servicing has been reappointed to provide custodial services to Australian Ethical for three more years. NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) has provided custodial support and services to Australian Ethical since 2007. NAS ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... Indeed the top four products at end December were retail products: IOOF Employer Super, IOOF Portfolio Service, Australian Ethical and CBA Essential Super. When comparing life stage options, to avoid such products being omitted from the performance assessment ...

Perpetual names new head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... and working his way to head dealer. He moved to CPH/Ellerston Capital for seven years where he was responsible for Australian and global long-short strategies, before rejoining Perpetual as portfolio manager. New deputy head of Equities Nathan Parkin ...

Instreet acquires ethical platform for responsible investing

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... Lucas continued, is helping advisers access ethical ETFs and introducing international "ethically based" funds to the Australian market. "These developments," he argued, "will give advisers more products and choices to build better ethical portfolios ...

Medcraft backs national adviser exam

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has come out in support of a new national exam for financial advisers. Medcraft backed the proposal in an op-ed published in the Australian Financial Review. "I strongly ...

Australian Ethical backs NAB Climate Bond

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Australian Ethical is backing the global environmentally focused bonds market by investing in NAB's newly released NAB Climate Bond. The Climate Bond aims to raise at least $150 million for renewable energy facilities. Climate bonds - also known as ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... their own sake that can encourage tax and welfare entitlement arbitraging. Murray says if these things are implemented Australian savers could end up with 25-40% more in retirement, which reinforces the FSI's concerns that the system is still too reliant ...