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Office properties here to stay: AMP Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022
Speaking at the Wollongong leg of Financial Standard's Advisers Big Day Out regional roadshow, AMP Capital portfolio manager Christopher Davitt said despite pandemic pressures and the subsequent workplace trends, the outlook for office investments remains ...

Optimum Pensions, Generation Life launch lifetime annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
Optimum Pensions and Generation Life partnered to launch an investment-linked lifetime annuity. The LifeIncome products offers a lifetime annuity with 23 different investment options and has reversionary benefit and death benefits. A statement called ...

FSC guidance looks to eliminate greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has released guidance setting industry expectations for net zero targets, the labelling of investment products and transparency of climate risk disclosures. On the guidance's creation, FSC chief executive Blake ...

CHESS replacement delayed further, review underway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
... reliable and scalable to meet existing and future needs of the market and participants." Also commenting, RBA governor Philip Lowe is an important step in providing assurance that the new system will be fit for purpose. "The replacement system must be ...

Financial product registrations up 30%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
APIR Systems reported a significant increase in the number of new financial product registrations in the financial year just gone. Product registrations rose 30.1% on the prior year, this also follows an increase of 25.8% in 2020/21. APIR chief executive ...

4D Infrastructure launches currency hedged fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
4D Infrastructure has introduced a hedged version of its flagship Global Infrastructure Fund. The 4D Global Infrastructure Fund (AUD Hedged) aims to lessen the impact of currency by hedging foreign exposure. In launching the hedged option, 4D's flagship ...

ASIC continues crack down on deceptive advertising

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
The corporate regulator has issued stop orders against a commercial property investment firm for misrepresenting the performance risks of one of its funds, including marketing it as 'Covid proof'. An interim stop order was placed on Fawkner Property ...

V-Square launches Australian ESG index strategy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
The Chicago based asset manager has extended its offering to Australian asset owners with the launch of the V-Square MSCI Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy. The strategy tracks the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ...

Portfolio holdings disclosure rules "feeblest on the planet": Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
A new report from Morningstar calls out the faults in the Portfolio Holdings Disclosure regulations, particularly as they pertain to unlisted, private equity and bond investments. The report's author, head of manager selection Grant Kennaway, says ...

Aware Super adds infrastructure portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
Aware Super has appointed former AMP Capital executive Jiren Zhou as the portfolio manager of infrastructure and real assets. Zhou joins from Plenary Funds Management, where he did a short stint as a partner and head of origination following his departure ...