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Whose side are you on, asks ASIC

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman, Jeff Lucy, said planners must always act in the best interest of their clients if they want the general public to view the industry as a legitimate profession. In his keynote address ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... were awarded their Chartered Financial AnalystA(R) (CFAA(R)) charter at a dinner in Sydney, part of the record 228 Australian candidates who will become eligible for a CFAA(R) charter this year. To earn a CFAA(R) charter candidates must undertake a challenging ...

It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... one of the cleanest and most regulated in Australia." MDRT isn't simply another association presence in the crowded Australian financial services landscape. For starters, to become a member of MDRT an Australian adviser must first be a member of an Australian ...

Big gaps in performance between managers

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... advantage to their hedged counterparts, with Vanguard's unhedged portfolio outperforming its hedged by 2.33 per cent. The Australian listed property sector was outperformed by global listed property, with returns of 18.09 per cent and 20.19 per cent ...

Suncorp scores $35m AMP mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
Suncorp Investment Management has won a mandate to manage $35 million for AMP's Responsible Investment Leaders Australian Share Fund. Suncorp's general manager, Stephen Lam, said the bottom-up stock selection approach had proved successful over time ...

Intrinsic finds value in Islamic investing

Intrinsic Investment Management hopes to address the needs of Muslim-Australian investors through an investment product that satisfies Shariah Law, a code of principles that many Muslims follow as part of their faith. Intrinsic's managing director Glenn ...

Bribery and corruption policies hard to find

On the back of the AWB scandal, research from the Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER) reveals that only half of Australia's largest companies have policies banning bribery or corruption. The research, which looked at companies in the S&P/ASX ...

Westpac supports Landcare with enviro term deposit

... responsible investment funds. According to Mercer, BT's Institutional Ethical Sector Trust has been the number one Australian SRI fund over the past three years with a 29% return in 2005. BT's Australian Sustainability Share Fund won Ethical Fund of ...

Ethical investment education comes online

... important topical area to be in for us in northern hemisphere for our operations." He added, "There is strong demand in the Australian market at the ethical end of investments, with up to $8 billion invested in sustainable and ethical funds, so it seemed ...

Ausbil Dexia notches four stars

Ratings firm S&P awarded a four-star rating to two of Ausbil Dexia's funds, the Investment Trust Australian Active Equity and Dexia Sustainable Global Equity. S & P fund analyst Anatoli Schwand credits Dexia's strong quantitative and stock selection ...