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UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... independent non-executive directors. Mann is a fellow of the Actuaries Institute and has more than 40 years' financial services experience. He retired as regional head, Asia, of First State Investments in 2010 and has held a number of non-executive directorships ...

ASIC accepts Community 21's prospectus for share raising

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... in a share offering open to non-profits. Peter Quarmby, Community 21 executive director Community 21 is the financial services organisation that jointly owns Community Sector Banking with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. It was established 12 years ago by ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... "The portfolio is biased towards those sectors that have performed strongly, which are effectively Telstra and financial services," said Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest. "They provide the bulk of the return over the whole market. By being ...

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Community 21, the financial services organisation that jointly owns Community Sector Banking with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, is seeking to raise up to AU$4 million in a share offering open to non-profits. Peter Quarmby, Community 21 executive director ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds and corporates. The fund manager also announced that they are pursuing a change in their Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) to the status of Responsible Entity and that they will register their retail funds as registered ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... an entity's achievement of its financial prospects would be more likely for an industrial entity than for a financial services entity. Each risk that is disclosed should: (a) be described in its context (e.g. why the risk is important or significant ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives more state funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... financial service products, and 2,858,661, or 15.8% of adults are severely excluded, meaning they have only one financial services product. "Around 86% of [Good Money] customers have never accessed community finance, but 34% have used fringe lending ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... financial service products, and 2,858,661, or 15.8% of adults are severely excluded, meaning they have only one financial services product. NAB commissioned the survey, and NAB also works in conjunction with Good Shepherd Microfinance. Good Shepherd ...

J.P. Morgan, GIIN report uptick in impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... collaboration among governments and major investment institutions." The survey found that microfinance and other financial services account for about a fifth of respondents' impact investment assets, with energy at 11% and housing at 8%. Allocations ...

FSC standard mandates ESG policy for superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Superannuation funds that are members of the Financial Services Council (FSC) will be required to develop and implement an ESG risk management policy from July under the FSC's standards. FSC full members must comply with standards that are relevant ...