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Super funds tap Barangaroo development

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... already in place for 71% of the commercial floorspace of the two towers, the investment will also strengthen income diversity for APPF Commercial," Dillon added.

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... replicating market returns at the lowest cost. Towers Watson's Smart Beta solutions fall into three main categories including diversity or alternative asset classes, long-term themes and systematic risk premia that use real estate securities and specialist ...

AIST working to improve board gender imbalance

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... Women in Super. "The program is one of several initiatives being conducted by AIST and Women in Super to improve gender diversity on super fund boards across the not-for-profit sector," said Cate Wood, president of AIST. According to AIST, recent research ...

AFA and TAL launch Female Excellence in Advice Award

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... encourage more female advisers into our industry, we want them to help shape our industry, we want them to help give it diversity and provide a greater level of compassion and choice for the customers that are in our industry today but also the future ...

Future Fund returns 5.4pc for Q1

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... is challenging," said Burgess. "Given the Fund's mandate, maintaining a long-term perspective and ensuring adequate diversity in the portfolio is important during this period of market volatility. We continue to construct a portfolio designed to generate ...

Russell rethinks indices on expected bank windfall

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... the custom-built indices according to dividend and value. Bennett however cautioned investors to maintain portfolio diversity despite income expectations and the potential attractiveness of purchasing bank shares directly. "It's a question that comes ...

Forum: Women Driving Change

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... saying training programs and flexibility were key to allow organisations to retain and transfer talent upwards, meeting diversity targets that way rather than simply enforcing quotas at a higher level. The gender gap in superannuation was also an area ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... mandate. Peter Sumner, portfolio manager of Australian equities at MLC Investment Management, said the group needed greater diversity across the portfolios with the former managers all pursuing similar stock and investment themes. "We have found there ...

Stronger Super makes trustee role unappealing: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... create "overly prescriptive laws". "Applying onerous and, in many cases, ambiguous laws on trustees and threatening the diversity of trustee boards is not the way to improve governance in the sector," said Anderson, raising concerns that proposed demands ...

Global uncertainty creating employment anxiety

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... saving considerable expense on salaries. "On the retail side - traditionally requiring large sales teams because of the diversity and size of the client base - there will be a push towards smaller, higher calibre sales forces and candidates will need ...