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Failure to monitor ESG may breach fiduciary duty

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
A United States Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for actions against institutions that fail to monitor the effects that climate change has on their portfolios. The Supreme Court held on 18 May 2015 that trustees have a fiduciary duty, emanating ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... The days of CPI plus 5% investment returns for superannuation funds are gone for the foreseeable future according to a United Kingdom based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... during the year "we were very deliberately positioned to take advantage of the stimulus monetary policy in Europe and the United States." But with monetary policy set to tighten and investors expecting an increase in interest rates in the US, the fund ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... partner Jonathan Horton, who has over 25 years' experience in the industry and worked with Lehman Brothers and UBS in the United States. "In addition to significant growth in our traditional client base of family offices and not-for-profit foundations ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... comparison to other so-called emerging markets like Latin America or Eastern Europe. The only market as interesting is the United States, but the US is a developed market, it is well understood and people tend to invest in it anyway. So it's harder to ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... on the line," Dunn said. There is already demand for Australia's fintech start-ups to head overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom and Singapore - something not lost on Stone and Chalk. "We need to be under no illusion that this is a global race ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Australia's legal and enforcement framework for foreign bribery with key international peer jurisdictions, in particular the United Kingdom and the United States. ACSI calls for "an offence of 'failure to prevent a culture of bribery', or equivalent ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... provides Australian fund managers with a significant advantage which is not enjoyed by large competitors such as Japan, United States and most of Europe. It gives us a first mover advantage. This is the regulatory architecture we need to compete in the ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... first to enter the space, and the first to leave it in September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank reforms in the United States and the European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive have heightened the regulatory environment that funds ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... peak." Woe is us for there are much more to worry about this present day. For back in December 2011, the economies of the United States, China and emerging markets were expanding, commodity prices were rising, the "Arab Spring" of the first quarter of ...