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CBA partners for agribusiness pilot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... decisions. Decisions not just based around chasing yield, but more importantly, profitability." "By collaborating with their farming team of accountant, production advisor and CBA agri-banker all within the Figured application, the Australian farmer ...

UK pensions not fussed about in-housing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... increasingly turning to in-housing of their investment capabilities, the UK pensions industry remains fairly comfortable farming out management of its assets to third-party managers. That's the main takeaway from a new survey by Cerulli Associates in ...

Rabobank has new local chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... has had the opportunity to gain in-depth experience across the breadth of the business, working with our Country Banking farming clients as well as Wholesale corporate food and agribusiness clients and small to medium enterprises operating in the food ...

Dimensional launches ESG trust

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling, alcohol, child labour, cluster munitions, pornography and factory farming. With regards to governance, Dimension aims to ensure company managements have the right incentives to maximise shareholder ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... redirection of the global capital flows into Australian agriculture. "Globally, the flow of institutional investment in farming has been largely into row crops, skewed by investments into US and Brazilian soy and wheat crops, while in Australia, the ...

Ausbil wins industry fund mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... strategy are also strong." Prime Super manages $2.8 billion in funds for its 125,000 members. Originally servicing the farming sector, Prime expanded to include other primary industries, including timber, horticulture and mining - essentially any industry ...

90 West founder steps down

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... Asset Management, Clive Landale, has after more than seven years decided to step down from the business to return to his farming and agricultural interests. Landale founded 90 West in 2008, managing an absolute return fund which invested across mining ...

Standing up for risk advisers

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... while paying off a mortgage, raising a child, retaining a social life, and she works one day a week while her husband is farming crocodiles, making $54,000 a year," he said. "There's no robo-advice tool that's going to solve that situation, because those ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... houses all over the world. By his own admission he got very lucky. One day he was contacted by a fifth-generation cotton farming family in Alabama who had stumbled across his CV four times through its global network from places as far flung as North ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... reason for the growth differential relative to Australia, suggests Van der Welle. "You have to see it in perspective. Farming accounts for just 7% of GDP. New Zealand is benefiting in particular from lower oil prices now. Cheaper energy is positive for ...