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Investors risk being left behind by renewable energy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
Investors globally are underestimating the risk of being left behind by climate change, renewable energy and other environmental trends, according to Nanuk Asset Management director Paul Chadwick. Nanuk manages a long/short thematic global equity fund ...

AIMA Hedge Fund Forum targets greater cohesion

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) will come together to promote greater cohesion within the fractured local hedge fund industry at its up-coming annual forum. The AIMA Hedge Fund Forum has been created by the industry to foster ...

First submissions to ASIC inquiry made public

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... the Commission. The couple doesn't disclose which bank made the loan, but it complains that the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has closed the file because it exceeds its jurisdictional limit of $500,000 and asks for more protection by ASIC. "I would ...

Tyndall concentrated fund gets Zenith 'recommended' rating

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
The Tyndall Australian Share Concentrated Fund has received a 'recommended' rating from Zenith Investment Partners. The fund was launched in May this year to the retail market, by Tyndall AM. However, the strategy underpinning it has a 15-year track ...

Count goes "social" in hunt for accountancy business

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Count Financial (Count) is using social media platforms as part of its strategy to attract accountancy firms to work under its Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). Count chief executive David Lane told Financial Standard that it is using Twitter ...

Newpin SBB benefits from international legal expertise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Law firm Allen & Overy has announced that it has advised Social Ventures Australia on their $7 million Social Benefit Bond (SBB), issued earlier this year. The SBB is the first of its kind in Australia, and will fund the UnitingCare Burnside Newpin ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Investments in companies focused on fossil fuels could be rendered 'worthless' in the face of falling demand and tighter global regulation on carbon dioxide emissions, according to IMPAX Asset Management, which said new research shows that exposure ...

Big banks move into SBB space

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
The Benevolent Society is teaming up with Westpac Institutional Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to issue Australia's second Social Benefit Bond (SBB) to fund the establishment of The Family Preservation Service. The service will focus on ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Industry fund NGS Super is currently designing an ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Old habits die hard it seems. Didn't US Federal Reserve Big Ben Bernanke already change the definition of Fedspeak to mean clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) ...