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Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Future Fund ranked worst in managing climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received ...

Koda Capital nabs more JBWere execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... Heath said. Knowles most recently led the philanthropic services team at JBWere and sat at the firm's charitable endowment fund investment committee. He has more than 25 years of experience in wealth management both in Australia and the UK. Chris Wilson ...

Future Fund alternatives head joins Hedge Fund Standards Board

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
Future Fund's head of debt and alternatives David George has joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The HFSB said the appointment emphasises the important role of sovereign wealth funds in promoting better practices in the hedge ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University has, however, already divested from direct investment into coal producers. ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate). The property investor, which was formed through a partnership between US endowment fund TIAA-CREF and London and ASX-listed fund manager Henderson, already has mandates in place with domestic giants AustralianSuper ...

Australian Catholic Super names new CIO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Block has previously worked at FuturePlus Financial Services, WorkCover NSW and the University of New South Wales endowment fund. He will join ACSRF on 8 December, and there will be a two-week handover period before Whittaker retires on the 18 December. ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... Brothers Fund announced that it was divesting from fossil fuels - a tremendously symbolic gesture, given that the endowment fund was founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. These events were the climax of a year in which many Australian ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... facilitate more low carbon investment opportunities. It also comes two days after the Rockefeller Brothers Fund - an endowment fund founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil - announced it was joining the Divest-Invest movement.

Budget speech 2014 -15

... disadvantaged and supports the most vulnerable. If we all contribute now, we will build the biggest medical research endowment fund in the world within just six years, a fund that will underpin the health system of the future. If we all contribute now ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
In an era when many investment managers are engineering overly complex, multi-layered model-driven strategies, traditional managers focused on long term fundamentals are finding a receptive audience. "It's performance, performance, performance. It's ...