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Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... old ideologies cast aside," he said. "Small-caps and micro-caps are better placed to benefit from this accelerated revolution." Similarly, Australian Ethical portfolio manager Andy Gracey said many small caps are now trading at a premium to their large ...

Isolated advisers enter the digital age

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... hungry to use, but I haven't found them yet," he said. De Gori believes the pandemic has kick-started a digital revolution in advice. "For financial planners, financial planning businesses, licensees and the financial services industry more broadly ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... she said. Motto believes that COVID-19 will forever change business as we know it. "COVID-19 will cause a business revolution which will see the fast tracking of the success of some business models and the failure of others," she said. "It will mean ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... into offshore windfarms instead - completely getting out of fossil fuels. "That wasn't a real transition, it was a revolution," Peers said. BP, on the other hand, doesn't meet Peers' criteria even though the company has announced it will ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match ...

Actuaries Institute appoints 2020 president

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... succeed in a world where the major issues we face - such as climate change, mental health, and the impact of the digital revolution - are so significant that no one country can hope to solve them in isolation." In 2019, only 33% of the Institute's members ...

Why Phillip Morris gets ESG points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
Ariel Investments chief investment officer Rupal J. Bhansali shared her contrarian views on ESG investing and why Phillip Morris International makes the cut. "Because we are risk aware managers we are going to be ESG aware," Bhansali said. "We believe ...

Consumers trust Google over advisers: NobleOak

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... are turning to the internet over advisers for guidance on their financial goals and needs. It points to the digital revolution and fallout from the Royal Commission as key reasons for this shift in consumer behaviour. In a survey of over 1000 Australians ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... big data are the building blocks of our future economy and these are the pillars that underpin the Fourth Industrial Revolution," Mabbott said. "For the financial services sector they will enable changes such as real time transactions and new forms of ...

Revolution Asset Management launches second fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... boutique has raised $100 million for its second fund with a Sydney superannuation fund onboard again as an investor. The Revolution Private Debt Fund II follows the boutique's inaugural fund which raised $200 million and had Australian Catholic Superannuation ...