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AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Geoff Lloyd to chair Stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Former Perpetual and MLC chief executive Geoff Lloyd has been appointed as chair of Stake. In October 2020, after a two-year tenure at the helm of MLC, Lloyd departed following the company's agreement to be acquired by IOOF. This period also marked ...

Quality stocks outperform on average: Bell AM

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Quality stocks are back in vogue as institutional investors seek out companies with high probability and strong balance sheets amid rising interest rates. Speaking to Financial Standard Bell Asset Management chief investment officer Ned Bell explained ...

Macquarie AM wins manager of the year: ILAs

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Macquarie Asset Management won multiple awards at last night's Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards, including the highly coveted Investment Manager of the Year Award. Attended by 350 people at Sydney's Crown, Financial Standard honoured ...

Wage increases to offset more rate hikes: Experts

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
The Fair Work Commission lifted Australia's minimum and award wages by 5.75% to alleviate incomes eroded by inflation, but experts say the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) won't be backing off anytime soon. Speaking this morning, Fair Work Commission ...

Frontier overhauls research function

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Frontier Advisors is restructuring its research team in a way that will see Andrew Kemp become head of defensive assets and private markets. While technically not a promotion, the overhaul widens Kemp's remit and gives him added responsibilities. ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Australian investors have traditionally been attracted to Australian small caps, yet locally, the asset class has consistently underperformed when compared to its global counterpart. A new research paper released by VanEck titled Global small-caps ...

Heatmaps drive efficiencies, more consolidation: Cole

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Speaking at a standing committee this morning, deputy chair Margaret Cole noted that the heatmaps and performance tests have created a more efficient and transparent superannuation system that will ultimately drive more consolidation. While that might ...

APRA probes super fund payments to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
During a Senate Economics Committee session yesterday, it was revealed that APRA is investigating the financial relationships between superannuation funds and unions. APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole confirmed the regulator's ongoing scrutiny into certain ...

Family office goals at odds with reality: UBS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
There's a mismatch between family offices' top stated purpose of wealth transfer and the processes, governance, and risk management in place to ensure that, with only 42% having a wealth succession plan in place. That's according to the latest UBS Global ...