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SSGA fund divests tobacco and weapons

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
A State Street Global Advisors Australian-based fund with about $900 million under management is divesting from weapons and tobacco companies. The State Street Global Index Plus Trust, which invests in global companies and aims to outperform the MSCI ...

CBA senior executives forego bonuses

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Commonwealth Bank chief executive officer Ian Narev and fellow group executives have been stripped of short-term bonuses ahead of tomorrow's financial results. The decision, made by the CBA board in a meeting yesterday, was reached following consideration ...

Major banks receive Budget shakeup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... regulatory measures to increase the accountability of senior executives within such institutions, including the ability to strip bonuses. The measures were labelled as a tax on the economy by Australian Bankers' Association chief executive Anna Bligh ...

Increased APRA levies provide regulator with more power

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
New reporting measures to increase accountability for authorised deposit-taking institutions and their executives will be introduced by the Federal Government. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has been allocated $28.6 million over ...

Retirement income opportunities begin early

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... alienating for consumers and we need to be much more rigorous about talking about super in plain English because when you strip it right back there are some really simple messages about super that everyone needs to understand but we don't make it easy ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
Strip infrastructure and private equity out of superannuation funds' alternatives investments and the asset class struggles to deliver its current growth-like returns. This is one of the key pieces of analysis provided by Frontier Advisors at its annual ...

DomaCom given A+

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
DomaCom Australia has received an A+ rating from Property Investment Research (PIR). The A+ rating means PIR believes this is a suitable product that has met the aggregate requirements of their review process across a number of key evaluation criteria ...

IOOF $20bn custody review selects BNP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... following the "M&As of different businesses, so we got a consultant in to see how we wanted to do this. Basically, we wanted to strip it all back to basics." He said the review involved IOOF asking "what are we good at, what infrastructure do we have ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... nations, follows eight years of negotiations. Covering countries in control of 40% of the world's GDP, the agreement will strip thousands of trade tariffs in the region and set common labour, environmental and legal standards among signatories. Once ...

Asset management modeling low-cost airlines

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan foresees the future of asset management being similar to the evolution of low-cost airlines. He said low-cost airlines made flying affordable by stripping out many of the "bells and whistles" and ...