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ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
A Scottish manager is offering a new ESG fixed income fund to institutional investors in Australia, beginning with $135 million in assets under management. The Cameron Hume Global Fixed Income ESG Fund will hold securities from issuers that the specialist ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... increase" is a smaller 600,000 bpd. Trump's re-imposition of sanctions against Iran (and threats that the US would sanction countries importing oil from Iran), supply disruptions in Libya, trouble in Iraq's oil-rich southern region and a strike ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
History is about to be made on 12 June 2018 at Sentosa Island in Singapore between the leader of the free world and the North Korean supremo. It's going to be a "win-win" deal according to US President Donald Trump. In all likelihood, North Korean ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
"...it is possible that the many, though not individually good men, yet when they come together may be better, not individually but collectively, than those who are so, just as public dinners to which many contribute are better than those supplied at ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Let me take you down (no, I'm not going to Strawberry Fields) back to early 2016, when the US and the European Union decided to lift financial and oil sanctions on Iran. Almost immediately Tehran announced it's bringing back production to 3 million ...

ASIC grilled over negotiating with banks

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The Royal Commission today questioned ASIC over its practice of heavily negotiating enforceable undertaking outcomes with financial advice licensees. Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr asked ASIC senior executive leader - financial advisers, Louise ...

Royal Commission grills professional associations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
The Royal Commission scrutinised the shortcomings of professional associations' ability to protect clients against inappropriate financial advice and the lack of urgency in resolving complaints. The Commission recommenced with Financial Planning Association ...

Lawyers slam life insurers in Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
The life insurance industry is failing to prove it can self-regulate via its two "deficient" codes, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers' submission to the banking Royal Commission. There have been more than 700 breaches of the Life Insurance Code ...

ABA makes new code compulsory

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Retail banks wishing to be members of the Australian Banking Association (ABA) will now have to sign up for its revamped Banking Code of Practice, which is currently awaiting ASIC's nod of approval. The new code will be binding, enforceable by law and ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
Directly subjecting Australia to US President Donald Trump's proposed steel and aluminium tariffs would have been dire for the country's resources sector, according to more than half (63%) of respondents in Financial Standard 's weekly spot poll. Australia ...