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Pension fund in divestment hoax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... in fossil fuels. The hoax release said the pension fund planned to start divesting immediately with a goal of reaching overall carbon neutrality by 2030. The release was picked up by a number of major European news outlets before the fund's head of communications ...

AMP Life awards mandate post acquisition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... appointment, Equity Trustees is now responsible for over $20 billion in superannuation assets for more than 700,000 members overall. The sale was first announced in October 2018 with the completion date set for the second half of 2019. However, it was ...

Investors turn to China-focused strategies

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... "This re-evaluation is partly driven by the growth of China's equity markets, both in terms of index weightings and overall market capitalisation," bfinance said. "It is also encouraged by rising awareness among investors of the different characteristics ...

Super fund names head of portfolio design

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... Sonya and the team at HESTA. The current investment environment is challenging; so it is the right time to be focusing on overall portfolio design, and thinking about how to optimise risk-adjusted returns," Weston said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has made ...

Property investors should diversify: FSI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... insulated from lockdown measures than large regional malls, with their higher mix of discretionary stores," Hayes said. "Overall, landlords will need to give rental concessions to tenants, and we expect dividends to be cancelled or reduced significan ...

Job vacancies up 15%: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... industry. Elsewhere, hospitality and tourism saw a 138% rise in ads and sport and recreation ads were up 123%. SEEK job ads overall were up 39% month on month and 52% year on year. "Historically, job ad volumes tend to ease off towards the end of the ...

COVID-19 dampens retirement expectations: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... of respondents revealed they did not feel Australia's super system could provide them with a dignified retirement. "Overall, there is an enormous sense of uncertainty and clear dissatisfaction that needs to be urgently addressed if the system is ...

How competitive is the Australian ETF industry?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... string together here and say this is why we want a competitive exchange traded products market here in this country." Overall, the total market by managers fell into the category of "moderate concentration" with a score of 1961 at March end. It has grown ...

Which is the most important letter in ESG?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... 13-year time horizon there is more balance across ESG factors. Governance is far from the only consideration. That said, overall governance was found to have the most impact on a company's performance overall. It was followed by environmental and social ...

Hedge funds in the green in May

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... seen over the past two months, the data revealed the majority of hedge funds are still in the red year-to-date, with the overall industry down -5.36%. Among strategies that the analytics firm tracks, activist hedge funds were the top performers in May ...