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Indigenous foundation teams up with super funds

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020

First Nations Foundation (FNF) has launched an online resource to help Indigenous Australians find, manage, and grow their superannuation. The platform has been supported by a number of superannuation funds and financial services providers, including ...

Rio Tinto decision exposes limits of super engagement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020

... hopes of preventing similar events from occurring in future. That engagement was on the back of the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites at Juukan Gorge by the mining company. But OM Holdings has its own history of destroying sacred sites to make way ...

CBA donates $2m to community charities

ALLY SELBY | MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020

... charities given the extremely challenging operating environment." Organisations receiving the grants include homelessness, Indigenous disadvantage, domestic violence and cancer-support charities. One such organisation is Tranby, a national education ...

First Nations Foundation gets COVID-19 funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020

The First Nations Foundation, an Indigenous-led not-for-profit that promotes financial literacy, has received funding to deliver COVID-19 support to women. The foundation was one of only four recipients of this funding from the Department of Prime Minister ...

Super funds keep eye on Rio Tinto review

HARRISON WORLEY | FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020

... processes with keen interest, following the miner's decision to destroy thousands of years of culturally significant Indigenous sites in the Pilbara. Rio Tinto independent non-executive director and former public servant Michael L'Estrange will ...

Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020

... excluded from two portfolio options of a major industry superannuation fund following its destruction of 46,000 year old Indigenous heritage sites at Juukan Gorge last month. First State Super has dropped Rio Tinto from the diversified socially responsible ...

Hold super accountable for miners' actions: Future Super

HARRISON WORLEY | THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020

... Australians to hold super funds accountable for investing in companies which have destroyed sites of cultural significance to Indigenous Australians. Future Super co-founder and managing director Kirstin Hunter has disavowed the plans of mining giant ...

MLC Wealth appoints chair

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020

... an independent director of CIMB Group, an ASEAN universal bank. Additionally, he is deputy chair of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, deputy chair of Surfing Australia and is a member of the advisory board of 5V Capital Investors. Until ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD | FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019

... unbroken GDP growth has twinned with migrant growth and the skills they brought. We continue to underline education in the Indigenous community, migrant, refugee and disadvantaged communities as being the key to breaking the barriers down and allowing ...

Big Super Day Out success, but more to be done

HARRISON WORLEY | THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019

The First Nations Foundation's 2019 Big Super Day Out reconnected more than $9.5 million in superannuation with Indigenous Australians. Taking off in July, the Indigenous-led super roadshow hit Darwin, Kununurra and Broome before heading to East Arnhem ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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