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SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... in annual returns as the seven year period rolls out, Learmonth said. The Newpin SBB raised AU$7 million. Superannuation fund NGS Super bought an AU$500,000 allocation in the bond. A second SBB was also launched last year in New South Wales. Westpac ...

JBWere: private ancillary funds increase in size, distributions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
There are more than a thousand Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) in Australia with approximately AU$4 billion in assets, with new donations rising to AU$354 million, according to the annual JBWere Giving Trends Report. Distributions from PAFs to charitable ...

Australian Ethical names new portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... concentrate on managing the team and the overall investment process for managed funds and Australian Ethical's superannuation fund, the fund manager said. See Also Australian Ethical launches Fixed Interest Trust Australian Ethical Investment hires head ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Proprietary model ASX50 and ASX100 portfolios developed by investment advisory firm Ethinvest outperformed mainstream indices by wide margins over the past one and two year periods, according to the firm. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest's ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Epworth Healthcare. She has also taken on the job of meeting with superannuation fund trustee boards and investment committees with a presentation outlining health, financial and reputational risks that ...

RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... and this is something the funds haven't seen for a long time," O'Connor said. "I think the onus is on the superannuation fund community to understand what the public want. If that is the case that most Australians expect that their money isn't invested ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the direct infrastructure division Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) will establish the country's first unlisted clean energy direct infrastructure fund. Meg McDonald, chief operating ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... on their trustee boards. Pam McAlister, partner and senior governance consultant, Mercer Mercer surveyed 33 superannuation fund CEOs, fund secretaries and governance, risk and compliance managers, in the wake of new regulations from the Australian Prudential ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The Financial System Inquiry interim report released this week addressed a myriad of topics that fall under inquiry's mission statement of laying out a blueprint for the next decade. Amid the four hundred-plus pages of the report is a three-page section ...

Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... initially from eight to nine, and Australian Christian Churches will become a fifth principal sponsor of our superannuation fund," Murphy said. "They will appoint one director to our board, until the next elections." Between now and October 1, Christian ...