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Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
Efforts to become more sustainable will challenge many firms and perhaps even bankrupt some, experts from MFS Investment Management have noted. In a new research note, MFS global investment strategist Robert Almeida and research analyst Robert Wilson ...

Super for home deposits could ignite new boom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
Research from the McKell Institute has suggested that allowing home buyers to dip into their superannuation for a deposit could ignite a further house price boom. The report, Mortgaging Our Future, used modelling to project the effect on the housing ...

Sunsuper ESG expert in new global role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Australian Retirement Trust, the entity Sunsuper and QSuper will form next year, is on the hunt for a head of responsible investments as one of the most likely candidates takes on a newly created role with Eastspring Investments. Stuart Wilson has been ...

Takeovers Panel weighs in on WAM takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
The battle between Wilson Asset Management and PM Capital over a takeover bid for a LIC heats up as the Takeovers Panel weighs in. PM Capital is urging shareholders to allow its PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund (PGF) to take over the PM Capital ...

LIC appoints former Wallaby as director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
A former Wallaby has joined the board of a Wilson Asset Management listed investment company. WAM Active (WAA) named Simon Poidevin as a director, replacing Emma Rugge Price, who served in the role for nearly four years. Poidevin spent 14 years at Citigroup ...

GSFM hires new product manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
GSFM has created a new product manager role and appointed a former senior staffer from BT Financial Group to the post. Natasja Liddell was hired to help meet the multi-affiliate fund manager's growing investor demand. Based in Sydney, she reports ...

Link enters UK pension market

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
Link Group is set to launch retirement solutions in the UK with a range of products to help providers enhance member experience. Link Group Retirement Solutions will first launch a digital-first solution to the defined contribution (DC) and Master trust ...

Boutique recruits portfolio manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2021
A $5 billon fixed income boutique hired a senior portfolio manager from the Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Based in Melbourne, James Wilson joined Jamieson Coote Bonds in November, finishing his most recent role at VFMC as senior portfolio ...

Regulation, industry to curb greenwashing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
The funds management industry, along with policymakers, must improve classifications of sustainable funds to prevent greenwashing, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report said that $20 trillion ...

Super funds don't vote together: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
The House of Representatives committee looking into common ownership of ASX companies has continued this week, with the super industry hitting back at suggestions that funds act in unison. Yesterday, Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) ...