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FSC serves boutique with 'surprise' exit fee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... here had had any involvement in the working committees, I hadn't seen anything that I'd regard as beneficial to us as an ethical fund manager, and indeed as a boutique. I have a view that the FSC has shifted to being a lobbying organisation for the big ...

Fostering ethical standards crucial to industry reputation: CFA

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Promoting an industry-wide conversation about ethical practices and raising awareness about investors' rights will go a long way to improving the health and reputation of the financial services industry, according to CFA Societies Australia vice president ...

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Ethical fund manager Hunter Hall Investment Management (Hunter Hall) has appointed Barbara Glover as head of retail sales and marketing. Glover has held positions with AXA, AMP Capital, ING Direct and NAB Wealth. Most recently she was distribution executive ...

CFA Societies launches initiative to raise ethical standards

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... and New Zealand have launched an initiative to encourage investors to assert their rights and demand higher standards of ethical conduct from the financial services industry and finance professionals. Investor First Week in Australia and New Zealand ...

Perpetual equity strategy awarded $200 million mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... financial year, as well institutional client growth in other strategies including the smaller companies, pure equity alpha, ethical SRI and enhanced cash.

World Bank issues Kangaroo Green Bond

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... as the World Bank has dubbed it. Other Australian investors include Aberdeen Asset Management, AMP Capital, Australian Ethical Investment Ltd, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Local Government Super and QBE Insurance Group Ltd. The Green ...

Australian Ethical buys ethical investment publication

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Ethical fund manager and superannuation fund Australian Ethical has bought online magazine Ethical Investor from previous owner Lifecraft Pty Ltd. The magazine, founded in 2001 as a print publication, will retain its current editor Ross Kendall. Australian ...

Professional planners don't accept commissions: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... integrated wealth groups. Rowe said that as a result of this re-introduction of commissions there is now a very clear ethical division in the financial planning sector. "There is now going to be a very clear difference between those in what I call the ...

Advisers have to act in client's best interests: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... tape, Abbott said all professionals are bound by fiduciary requirements, many of which are unspecified. "It is a given of ethical practice if you are a professional that you are taking the best interests of your client, your patient, your customer into ...

Australian Ethical hires new Head of Ethics

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Australian Ethical Investment has appointed a new head of ethics to further develop the company's ethical investment frameworks. Dr Stuart Palmer formally of St James Ethics Centre will work with the company's ethical advisers CAER and the investment ...