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Copia seals distribution partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... utilities, energy, transportation, and communications, that aim to provide long-term total returns using an environmental, social and governance (ESG) overlay. The fund returned 11.7% per annum before fees and unhedged in USD over a five-year period ...

Rest awards impact mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... 'impact investments' as investments made in members' best financial interests, to provide a financial return and a social and or environmental return. Earlier this month, Rest announced it had invested in an agriculture-focused fund that ...

QIC names next chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... Dick, who said: "QIC plays a central role in harnessing opportunities that secure Queensland's future prosperity." "From social and affordable housing to critical minerals, renewable energy, and major transport infrastructure, QIC's expertise continues ...

Canna Campbell slapped with $114k legal bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... last December, which found that Campbell breached Korolak's registered trademark, "Financial Foreplay", by using it on social media platforms and podcasts between 12 February 2020 to 15 May 2021. In one example, Justice Manousaridis said: "The screenshots ...

Super funds in pole position for expanded advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... complying with the higher standards of conduct and ethics for providing services and advice, and by demonstrating their social responsibility and sustainability," she said. Conversely, will the banks be prepared for more regulatory scrutiny and higher ...

Five megatrends shaping financial services: McCrindle

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
Demographic change, virtuous consumerism, the grandparent economy, AI acceleration, and social reconnection are the five megatrends shaping the future of SMSF and financial services businesses, according to McCrindle Research principal Mark McCrindle. ...

VanEck failed to disclose influencer's role in ETF launch: SEC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... 2021. In the US, VanEck Associates Corporation has agreed to pay the fine to settle charges that it failed to disclose a social media influencer's role in the February 2021 launch of the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF (NYSE: BUZZ). The ETF tracks the ...

Platforms ramp up innovation, back-end efficiencies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... stream of lifetime income that afford advisers the flexibility of a wrap account while granting clients a variety of tax and social security benefits. Meanwhile, HUB24 and Netwealth have natively integrated Allianz Retire+ AGILE and Challenger fixed-term ...

Sydney HNWI drops $24m on EG building

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024
... apartments, with the Little BIG Foundation engaging with tenants across commercial and residential real estate to drive social connections." Last year, EG launched a joint venture with private debt investment company Msquared Capital (Msquared). According ...

SIX launches share platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
... reach for most investors. "In the last two years alone, only 10 Australian companies received a shareholder resolution on social and environmental issues, compared to 340 resolutions in 2023 alone in the US," Verwey said. "We want to double the number ...