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Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Climate Change is an issue that has never been raised at board level in some of Australia's largest financial institutions, said a prominent economist. Just like during the global financial crisis, when sub-prime risk left many reeling, the investment ...

Tyndall AM completes management team

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Tyndall AM has finalised its senior management team with the appointment of Linda Garry as senior manager, marketing and communications. Matt Russell, head of sales and marketing at Tyndall AM, said that the business has built a strong management team ...

Down, down interest rates are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012

Nothing new in objectives-based investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Objectives-based investing is nothing new and fund fiduciaries being pushed to adopt it should instead see it as recognition that traditional investment approaches has many inbuilt limitations. Tony MacKenzie, chief strategist at QIC, told the ASFA ...

Beware complex absolute return funds: Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
As absolute return funds grow in popularity, investors must be wary of exposing to products they don't fully understand, according to Lonsec. A wealth of new outcome-based equity products has sprung up in recent years, capitalising on the disappointing ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Future Fund chairman David Gonski is diametrically opposed to frequent re-election of superannuation fund directors. Instead he says that board members' tenures should be structured as three terms of three years or two terms of five years. "Annual re-elections ...

In-house investment management risky

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
While developing an internal investment team sounds like an easy way to save fees, it's a complex governance switch that funds must understand and carefully plan. "When you bring investments in-house you turn manager 'agency risk' into a HR (human resource) ...

ASFA Board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
HOSTPLUS boss David Elia attended his first Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia board meeting yesterday after being unveiled as the representative body's newest director. "We are extremely pleased to have someone of David's caliber join ...

Outcomes-based investing is the future for wealth creation sector: AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
A rise in the number self managed super funds is proof that the investment industry has not delivered, a senior AMP Capital executive said. It is no longer good enough to be satisfied with not doing as bad as an index and the industry needs to focus ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
No flip flop today but with Europe silence (for now), Wall Street continued cliff-watching the latest development on the cliff-hanger that is the fiscal cliff. Investors even ignored the large upgrade in US third quarter GDP. Perhaps because it was ...