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NZ Super, Ontario Teachers' acquire healthcare provider

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... provider Healthscope and adds to NZ Super Fund's NZD$7.2 billion portfolio of domestic investments APHG has been conducting a third of all COVID-19 tests in New Zealand and provides pathology services to 13 district health boards with over 150 collection ...

APRA takes action against Westpac

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... oversight, risk control frameworks and risk culture, the regulator said. APRA now requires comprehensive reviews by independent third parties of Westpac's compliance with APRA's liquidity reporting requirements and the remediation of its control framework ...

COVID-19 upends business travel, technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
The leaders of major organisations will travel less and accelerate digital transformation ahead of other investments thanks to the way COVID-19 has disrupted operations, a Westpac survey found. Over 110 chief executives canvassed in Westpac's Asia ...

Aussies won't top-up ERS losses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... their savings despite record low interest rates. Some people, about 22%, were planning to spend their tax savings - with a third of those acknowledging the money would be put towards essentials like bills and groceries. About 17% said they would top ...

Chief economist update: Australian capex in COVID-19's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... -2.2% in the September quarter 2020. Year-on-year, total actual private new capital expenditure dropped by 13.8% in the third quarter, accelerating from the 11.7% decline registered in the June 2020 quarter. Spending on buildings and structures fell ...

AMP Capital invests in UK port

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... Infrastructure Investors' March 2020 report. The report ranked AMP Capital, with a total of US$10.9 billion capital raised, as the third largest for the year. BlackRock (US$11.7bn) and EIG Global Energy Partners (US$11.5bn) were the leading fund managers ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... previous quarter. Sure, latest reports show that the second estimate of US GDP rebounded at annualised rate of 33.1% in the third quarter (unrevised from the initial estimate) but the exponentially rising number of infections and deaths since the September ...

ESG bringing the family together

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... ESG investment matters for the family. But it is not just the children that consider ESG investing important with over a third of all generations considering it as highly important to them with 36% of 40-60 year-olds and 35% of over 60 year-olds. "The ...

Vanguard, Fidelity, BetaShares rank low on ESG: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... experience prior to taking their current posts in 2017, a small team of five ESG analysts leverage sustainability data from third-party vendors and collaborate with the asset-class analysts to assign companies ESG ratings that take the form of a six-tier ...

Aussie dividends lag on global stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
Global dividends took an 11% hit, falling $76.7 billion in the third quarter with the weakest results coming from Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands, according to Janus Henderson. The Global Dividend Index revealed Australian dividends suffered ...