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FEATURE - Retirement income: Finding the right path

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
A new wave of retirees is learning that years of accumulation need further thought. Darren Snyder reports. A recent Commonwealth Bank media roundtable showed projections by Rice Warner that Australia's retirement market would reach more than $1.4 trillion ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, offered jointly by RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices, has released its 2015 review. The equity indices are limited to companies that pass RobecoSAM's environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluations, collectively ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
This week's top industry moves include NAB appointing a general manager for Antares Equities and executives from Zenith and BlackRock joining UBS. - UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs A - Zenith's Jonathan Baird and BlackRock's David Redford-Bell ...

UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
UBS Global Asset Management has expanded its team in Australia with the appointment of a fixed income investment specialist from Zenith and a national sales manager from BlackRock. Jonathan Baird will join UBS's Sydney fixed income team as investment ...

S&P launches sinner-free index

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a sinner-free index that includes the S&P500 companies whose practices adhere to Catholic values, and exclude those who don't. The S&P500 Catholic Values Index is the first Catholic index that uses the S&P500 as a ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...

Liquidator appointed in suicide case

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
ASIC has appointed a liquidator for six investment management companies linked to a Perth-based promoter, who is believed to have taken his own life after defrauding investors for years. The Federal Court of Australia has made orders appointing EY partner ...

Australian managers most focused on ESG

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... investors are willing to pay for ESG assurances," Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRC) executive director Jon Lukomnik said. The research also concluded that the top three issues in decision-making are board accountability, human ...

High expectations suggests need for retirement advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... advice offerings designed to start preparing for retirement earlier in life. SSGA head of portfolio strategists Asia-Pacific, Jon Shead, said the report identified a "dis-link between people being comfortable about retirement but not necessarily having ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... portfolio analysis and construction, security valuation, market structure, trading and execution," head of iShares Australia Jon Howie said. Alex Zaika joins iShares from Barclays Capital, where he was a sales manager focusing on investor solutions. ...