Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 51 - 60 of 82 results for "Market Forces"

More transparency needed on fossil fuel investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Financial services activist group Market Forces is imploring superannuation funds to vote against remuneration reports at the upcoming AGMs of several fossil fuel companies. The plea is based around company executives proposing to receive bonuses for ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... many weeks. This time the focus is centred on super funds' investment portfolios with a survey from activist group Market Forces showing 86% of Australians want to know where their superannuation is fully invested. From more than 1000 respondents the ...

Managed accounts to disrupt fund businesses to the tune of $60bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... reading for both fund managers and financial advisers with or without a managed accounts offering. "We identify six market forces now driving the adoption of managed accounts and they could deliver around 75% of industry net flows," noted the report. ...

AFA heralds adaptability

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... strategy, culture and architecture of their advice practices," he said. "Delegates considered the key trends and market forces through the lenses of political, market, economic, digital and consumer shifts in the advice landscape. These are important ...

AustralianSuper launches new SRI investment option

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... environment and climate caused by fossil fuels, and human and labour rights," the statement said. Financial activist group Market Forces welcomed the announcement but said the vast majority of the fund's members "will be left holding sinking fossil fuel ...

Divestment integral for better returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... investors should be questioning their investments in fossil fuel stocks following the collapse of Peabody, according to Market Forces. The financial activist group said the long-expected bankruptcy of Peabody should serve as a "cautionary tale" to Australians ...

Super funds losing billions to fossil fuels

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
Activist group Market Forces has published a report estimating 15 Australian superannuation funds have lost about $5.6 billion on fossil fuel investments since 2014. The recent study also found losses from fossil fuel investments may have cost some ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... now find itself under more pressure to manage the yuan as central banks in most developed economies do: by letting market forces determine their prices. What would happen if China really did give the market the last word on the yuan? For some time it ...

SSFS rebrands, launches digital advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... business would require "major recasting." "Developing our future-proofing strategy to meet changing client needs and market forces called for focus on two equally important areas - people and technology," he said. The "people" aspect of StatePlus' new ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... as it was) as a natural consequence of concerns over China's slowing growth and the government's goal of letting market forces determine the yuan's value. Nevertheless, the PBOC assuaged these fears at the meeting and quickly followed up with a statement ...