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California pension giants must divest from coal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... with portfolio companies, and investing in climate change solutions. We remain committed to encouraging our investment managers, portfolio companies, and policy makers to engage in responsible environmental practices as part of our duty as a principled ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
Investment managers have gone too far in pandering to the short-term investor according to Capital Group equity portfolio manager Jody Jonsson. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) event yesterday, Jonsson said there ...

Managed Accounts challenge to retail wealth groups

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... Account structure. These models are managed by more than 70 different investment houses including regular investment managers, researchers, brokers, managed account platform promoters and also advice groups. While the managed account sector is being ...

SMAs on Macquarie Wrap pass $100m milestone

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... wealth product Cameron Garrett said. "Since launching SMAs on Macquarie Wrap, we've added a broader range of investment managers and models covering multiple asset classes, strategies and styles to allow advisers to construct a unique portfolio to cater ...

Instos seeking co-designed mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... larger investors are increasingly seeking discrete mandates that are co-designed in direct collaboration with investment managers, usually against specific risk parameters and target performance outcomes. "We see a distinct trend has emerged whereby ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... started to appear during the 70s and the 80s, when there started to be a need to monitor and measure similar investment managers, AMP Capital chief investment officer of the multi-asset group, Sean Henaghan explains. While the system proved to be effective ...

Club Plus Super appoints three senior execs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... investment governance functions and managing relationships with the fund's asset consultant, custodian and external investment managers. Dooley's previous positions span more than two decades in the industry have included general manager, institutional ...

ANZ senior manager leaves to set up consultancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Global Wealth that manages investment portfolios and funds, including the selection and oversight of external investment managers. The news of a "streamlining" operation happening within this division comes shortly after the bank's wealth management ...

Japan joins Asia Region Funds Passport

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... participation will provide the passport with scale, efficiency, competition and choice. "The passport will offer investment managers across the region a viable alternative to the European Union's regime which has a strong foothold in Asia. It will mean ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... alcohol-related companies. Earlier this year Sydney University updated its investment policy and said external investment managers will be required to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Investment consultants will also be required to ...