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ASIC unveils primary school teaching package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Financial literacy is taught across most states' curricula throughout primary school and across subject areas in secondary school but this package includes tailored material for primary teachers that has been mapped into the Australian National Curriculum. ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
The Future Fund has defended its investments in subsidiaries based in known tax-havens during a senate inquiry yesterday. The fund's 2011 annual report shows that it has 14.4% of its assets in the Cayman Islands, plus significant investments in the ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
Institutional investors are increasingly demanding that Environmental, Social and Governance principles be considered in mandate design - and it needs to be from a macro-level, said Solaris Investment Management. "Several of Solaris' institutional clients ...

Portfolio Disclosure guideline released

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... guidelines will propose that fund managers disclose the assets that they normally would disclose on their balance sheet. "The principle is that everyone should know what their investments hold and what their values are," said Anthony Serhan, chief executive ...

Default fund listings unnecessary: FSC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... Westfield/Wright, Brogden said small and medium sized employers do not want industrial parties choosing defaults. "The principle is that employers do not want another group or entity picking service providers for their businesses," said Brogden. Once ...

AFA releases draft code of conduct

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers has released a member consultation paper outlining their draft professional adviser code of conduct. The draft was released with a view to it being finalised before the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ...

ISN releases super returns persistency report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... results to examine if a persistency relationship existed. They indeed found strong persistency, challenging the legal principle that past returns should not be viewed as an indicator of future returns. "For all 172 multi-asset class funds with complete ...

CFSGAM boosts responsible investment team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has augmented its responsible investment team with two appointments. Pablo Berrutti, ex-head of responsible investment at Perpetual will take the newly created role of head of responsible investment ...

NIIS development on track

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... needs, not any other factor, should determine your level of care," he said. The advisory group said it affirmed the principle of uniform coverage regardless of how a disability is acquired and the need for service delivery to reflect control and choice ...

FSS responds to Privacy Commissioner's Report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... improper disclosure of customer information by First State Super, the report found that FSS had breached a national privacy principle by failing to protect members' personal information from unauthorised access. "We acknowledge the Commissioner's finding ...