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Bennelong appoints distribution specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... working alongside Adam Tweedale and Tim Bolger. Bennelong recently added Avoca Investment Management to its suite of asset managers that also includes Australian Equity Partners and Bennelong Long Short Equity Management. "We're excited about the momentum ...

Super funds fail green assessment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... high carbon to low carbon investment." Despite this, the report found that only 0.3 per cent of asset owners and asset managers are invested in low carbon technology and clean energy even though asset consultant Mercer has recommended an allocation of ...

Sunsuper appoints ESG specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... current and perspective fund managers. Sunsuper, which has more than one million members, formally reviews all asset managers once a year. Sunsuper said that Wilson would report on the fund's governance activities to internal stakeholders and work with ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... Corp has an overall rating of 5, while Insurance Australia Group scores 4.8. Globally, 227 asset owners and 496 asset managers have committed to integrating ESG considerations into their investment and stewardship approaches by signing up to the United ...

North opens Bluedoor to bright future

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... what ATMs and online banking did for banks. Bluedoor 2.0 will give financial institutions, fund administrators and asset managers access to straight-through processing of term deposits and will enable them to automatically rebalance their model portfolios ...

LGS and VFMC join 'green' property movement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... superior occupancy rates," said Peter Lambert, chief executive, LGS. GRESB was created by a number of funds and asset managers, representing $1.4 trillion in assets under management, including ATP, Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, Aviva Investors and ...

Northern Trust lands QIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... Australia and New Zealand, said the decision reflected Northern Trust's strength in market-leading solutions for asset managers and asset owners in the region. "We look forward to supporting QIC's continued growth in the Australian fund market, as well ...

Funds must invest in ESG expertise

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... represent in the valuations of the companies analysed," said Donohue. Global sovereign wealth, major public funds and asset managers with around $22 trillion of AUM have already committed to the UN Principles of Responsible Investing programme.

Offshore fund managers tap Northern Trust

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... expertise of global custody provider Northern Trust. "We have received great interest from European and US global asset managers chasing super dollars down here, those markets are under funded while our super system with nine per cent, and possibly 12 ...

IAS pools $650m in managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... investment managers including Financial Clarity, Henderson Maxwell Private Wealth Management and DFS with professional asset managers such as Hyperion and Bennelong. Since 2007, IAS has specialised in implementing discretionary portfolios services for ...