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AMP to launch SMSF trustee course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
AMP will launch an online self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustee course early next year as part of a wider education strategy aimed at both advisers and trustees. AMP SMSF head of policy, technical and education services, Peter Burgess said ...

Australian Ethical joins animal welfare initiative

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical has joined other institutional investors as part of the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare to encourage global food companies to meet a certain standard. The benchmark conducts an annual report ranking global food companies ...

SG Hiscock finds value far from ASX big caps

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Australian small caps appear increasingly attractive to investors who are overexposed to ASX20 companies, but reluctant to increase their international exposure, SG Hiscock portfolio manager Callum Burns said. The SGH ICE portfolio invests in what Burns ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Institutional investors are moving fast to protect their portfolios from the risks facing the Australian market. Over a third of the money poured into new mandates last year was in international equities, twice the amount of new funds invested in Australian ...

Towers Watson wins public sector fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Towers Watson has been appointed as the asset consultant to a public sector fund's investment portfolio after a tender process. WA Super chief executive John McNally said the $2.5 billion fund chose Towers Watson to provide investment consulting "given ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
"Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of ...

New website gives advisers company ESG ratings

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
CAER has launched a new website that allows financial advisers to view the researcher's environmental, social land governance ratings for more than 300 Australian and New Zealand companies at the click of a button. Coinciding with Ethical Investment ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...