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State Street cops $1.25m fine from AUSTRAC

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... no business or financial impact to its clients. In the past, AUSTRAC has used civil penalties against Westpac which has so far notified shareholders of more than $1 billion in expected total costs from the matter, Commonwealth Bank resulting in a $700 ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... America's 13.2%, Australia's 10.6% or Germany's 8.9%. The PBOC lowered its benchmark lending rate just twice so far this year - in February by 10 bps and in April by 20 bps - to 3.85% and cut its reserve requirement ratio for big banks by ...

Melbourne boutique raising $70m for new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
An impact investing boutique owned by a family office and led by a former JBWere executive is raising $70 million for a new fund. Impact Investment Group's latest fund, the Impact Alternatives Fund, is targeting 6% to 10% per year in returns (before ...

Banks lose US$635 billion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
Global banks have cumulatively lost around US$635.33 billion in market capitilisation between December 2019 and August 2020, according to research from Buy Shares. The data indicated that 14 of the world's largest major global banks have suffered ...

Super fund restructures, fixed income lead exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
A $65 billion superannuation fund is restructuring several business units and farewells the head of fixed income and currency after 13 years in the process. Sunsuper is reorganising its public markets division to a business unit that will undertake ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... outperforming their peers. These strategies returned 7.88% in August, lifting their year to date returns to 3.25%. However, this is far from the results achieved by the average event driven-activist strategy in 2019 (17.46%). The best performing strategy ...

Investors seek to increase EM exposure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
Asia-based institutional investors and those from around the world expect to increase their emerging market (EM) exposures, both in equity and fixed income, according to Vontobel Asset Management. The Vontobel investor survey found while a minority ...

Chief economist update: V in US recovery at risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
The US labour market continues to get betterer and betterer. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.37 million in August - in line with market expectations and marked the fourth straight month of increase ...

S&P DJI rebalances S&P/ASX Indices

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Mining, Event Hospitality and Entertainment, Reece and Temple and Webster Group. Those removed from the S&P/ASX 300 include FAR, Ive Group, Japara Healthcare, Myer Holdings, Regis Healthcare, and SG Fleet Group. There were two additions to the S&P/ASX ...

Lack of transparency in ESG funds criticised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Research house Lonsec has criticised ESG fund managers for confusing ESG scores and a lack of transparency. "The traditional ESG approach tends to be more about process and less about outcomes," Lonsec head of sustainable investment research Tony Adams ...