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Poor governance high returns: SBS

A previously unreleased research report by the Sydney Business School has revealed that investing in companies characterised by 'poor governance' may reward investors more than investing in companies with so-called good corporate governance practices. ...

Index for the smart, hedge for the stupid

LA-based investment theory and practice guru Rex Sinquefield entertained, enlightened and provoked the audience at the FPA conference last week when he questioned returns made by hedge funds and called those who invest in them "stupid". "Many people ...

Mercer to screen managers against ESG

Mercer Investment Consulting (Mercer IC) has started reviewing fund managers regarding how actively they exercise 'active ownership' principles such as exercising proxy voting and participating in constructive shareholder engagement. Mercer IC has taken ...

Members staying put: Mercer

A new Mercer survey shows almost half of all members surveyed want to stay put in their current fund despite super choice. Mercer's September Super Switch Index showed that member loyalty remains very strong with 47 per cent of members 'unlikely to ...

News Ltd hits back as super funds bring legal action

Several Australian and US super funds are joining with other institutional investors to sue News Limited over allegedly "breaking an express promise" made during reincorporation negotiations last year. A group of international Institutional shareholders ...

Melbourne Biotech group wins Chinese investor

Melbourne's reputation as a biotech investment hub continues to grow with the recent awarding of a $3 million investment from a Chinese company to Melbourne based herbal medicine and therapeutic science group R&D. The agreement is between RMIT University's ...

Micro venture cap fund targets consumers

A specialist micro venture capital fund targeting small investors has been formed to help fund Australian inventors in their early phases of development. The fund aims to raise $5 million over the next year which will be used to support inventors wanting ...

Property developer owing over $14M to investors appears in court

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has brought 20 charges of breaching the Corporations Act against John Sage in the Melbourne Magistrates Court. The regulator alleges Sage provided prospective investors in the Victorian based ...

Super funds call for better governance

A group of industry superannuation funds have called for better governance in managing conflicts of interest after research which revealed almost $6 billion of director-related business was conducted by Australian companies. "Members investing their ...

BNB and ABN Amro join forces to tackle infrastructure

Babcock and Brown (BNB) has expressed its interest to enter into a joint venture with ABN Amro to initiate new infrastructure projects as well as complete existing ones currently in progress. In anticipation of the new partnership being established ...