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US finance firms announce emission cuts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... month announced plans to cut its emissions by 20 per cent in less than 10 years. As part of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program a number of local companies, including financial services firms, committed to reducing greenhouse ...

All aboard online at CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... CalPERS administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired State, public school, and local public agency employees and their families on behalf of 2,600 California public employ.

CalPERS reviews US$50m fees to placement agent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... by its external fund managers after a disclosure report found more than US$50 million in fees were paid to a placement agency ran by a former CalPERS board member. According to a press statement, CalPERS internal records show that the sum was paid over ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Superannuation funds should "own" the fund managers they award mandates to if funds wanted to slash agency costs and remove excessive choice, said industry veteran, Jack Gray. Gray, former co-head of asset allocation at GMO and current adjunct professor ...

Future Fund guardian joins Coffey International

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
The former chief executive of Suncorp-Metway and guardian of the Future Fund Management Agency, John Mulcahy, has been appointed non-executive director at global consulting firm, Coffey International. Mulcahy starts work immediately at the ASX listed ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... bond market react without the Fed's manipulation? There's one change this month though, the FOMC decided to extend MBS/agency debt purchases into the first quarter of next year. Looks like I spoke too soon, Fed manipulation remains. Net-net, easy money ...

ASIC reviews prospectus disclosure of CRAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... reviewed because it has implications for the accountability of credit rating agencies to investors as unless the credit rating agency gave explicit permission for their work to be quoted they are protected from liability regarding the contents of prospectuses ...

ISN unveils new industry fund campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... visual campaign with little voice-over, allowing the imagery and music to tell the story, noted the statement. The creative agency, Shannon's Way, devised a technique which uses the 'hands' as a frame from which to transition from member to member. Bernie ...

SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... philosophy to advocate better corporate governance. The industry has come a long way since the first SWF, the Kuwait Investment Agency, was set up in 1953. The sector is predicted to reach US$15 trillion by 2020.

Suncorp and CMC sign share trading deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... provides banking, insurance and wealth management products to AAMI, Asteron, Tyndall and the Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency.