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What you read in 2020

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
As we farewell a year that many will be glad to see the back of, check out Financial Standard 's most read stories for 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the majority of this year's most widely read stories, as unprecedented shutdowns and ...

Super fund shuffles team, investment chief steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... in ethical investments and is on the board of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Financial Standard profiled McLeod this year in its annual FS Managed Accounts journal publication. Barlow-Bolt joins from Australian Unity where ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
Of the almost 3500 stories penned this year, these are the stories the Financial Standard team feels defined 2020. The Financial Standard editorial team has written 3484 stories so far in 2020. It wasn't always easy either. Like most of you, we ...

Australia bottoms out on fund disclosure

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... (ESG) and stewardship disclosure. Morningstar director of manager research for Australia Grant Kennaway told Financial Standard the results are not unexpected but disappointing, nonetheless. "Australia has been kicking the can down the road particularly ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... administration fee front AustralianSuper has increased the cost even as it gathers scale, as first revealed by Financial Standard. "AustralianSuper invests over $43 billion in Australian companies and has been a provider of growth capital to many Australian ...

Firetrail dips toes in global equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... global equities team, after gathering over $5 billion in its Aussie equities strategies in under three years, Financial Standard understands. The boutique was launched by Macquarie Investment Management's long/short team led by Patrick Hodgens in March ...

AllianceBernstein Australia eyes ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... project. We have seen some innovations, and [listing structures] that have broken some new ground," Driscoll told Financial Standard. The MVE fund was developed in conjunction with a superannuation fund ad has grown to $1.2 billion in size. The firm ...

Advice firm launches dealer group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... a bit of oversight... From that perspective, we thought a dealer group was a natural next step," Lyon told Financial Standard. So far, IIP Dealer Group has signed about five financial advisers and is conducting due diligence on several others. Lyon said ...

TelstraSuper appoints head of equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... including both domestic and international stocks. Dominique D'Avrincourt will join TelstraSuper in January, Financial Standard 's sister publication Industry Moves first reported. In her most recent role, she was an investment manager in equities ...

Funds' net-zero ambitions collide with Santos

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... benchmarks that take carbon emissions into account it had cut the carbon footprint of its equities portfolio by 40%, Financial Standard asked the fund whether this holding in Santos had been reduced. Aware confirmed these September figures are still ...