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NAS launches ESG reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
NAB Asset Servicing has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) insight reporting service, allowing clients to assess and monitor a range of ESG metrics. The service provides the firm's asset servicing clients including superannuation ...

Antipodes LIC aims to raise $200m

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Sydney-based international equities boutique Antipodes Partners has launched its first listed investment company (LIC) to Australian and New Zealand investors. Antipodes Global Investment Company Limited (ASX: APL), which has a 'Recommended' rating ...

Actuaries want super dashboard overhaul

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Actuaries are weighing in on the debate around superannuation fund transparency, labeling current dashboards unsound and needing an overhaul. The Actuaries Institute says its view is based around a review of the MySuper dashboard structure. It lists ...

DNR Capital fund scores 'Recommended' rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Zenith has awarded the DNR Capital High Conviction Australian Equities Fund a 'Recommended' rating, twelve months after the fund was launched. The fund is based on the DNR Capital Australian Equities High Conviction strategy that was previously only ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
In a week punctuated by disappointing key stats from the world's major economies, something strange in our neighbourhood happened... Wall Street produced a trifecta. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August ...

Pension changes will impact retirement adequacy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Impending changes to the aged pension asset test thresholds will have a significant impact on the number of couples able to achieve a comfortable retirement, according to new research from Willis Towers Watson (WTW). The joint research from WTW and ...

Court approves OneVue merger meeting

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
The Federal Court has made orders approving the meeting of Diversa shareholders to vote on a merger with OneVue. As previously reported in Financial Standard, OneVue will acquire all of Diversa's ordinary shares. The combined business will have a market ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy believes it is within most people's means to better understand and engage with their superannuation. It is this mantra that will help shape the corporate super fund. Every time Michael Clancy steps off a Qantas ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Australia consumer inflationary expectations If it's anything to go by, the latest result from the Melbourne Institute's survey of consumer inflationary expectations, along with the resurgence in the Australian dollar, would strengthen speculation for ...

Magellan full year profits up 14%

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
Magellan Financial Group has seen its net after tax profit increase 14% to $198.4 million in the last financial year. Funds under management rose 11% to total $40.5 billion at 30 June with 83% of assets in global equities and 17% in infrastructure equities. ...