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Green ETFs on the up and up: AUSIEX

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... specific ESG-related company activities. "COP 26 affirmed the leading role the private sector will need to play to help reduce global warming," he said. "Given this, as well as the likelihood of greater focus on climate action as a result of the recent ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... that while the companies ESG score had remained fairly stable, it was pushed down further down the ranks relative to its global industry group peers. Other contributing factors pertained to Tesla's lack of low carbon strategy and codes of business conduct. ...

Brookfield pursues asset management spin-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
... management business is one of the leading alternative investment firms in the world, managing the capital of over 2000 global institutional investors and a growing list of high-net-worth investors. We are excited about this next chapter of our growth." ...

Super's defense against economic volatility

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... stabilising source, superannuation is perhaps needed now more than ever before as big economic issues confront Australia. Global inflation, rising borrowing costs, a global debt spiral, a pandemic and now a war in Ukraine have gut-punched already struggling ...

Super funds back Say on Climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... Active Super (8 votes), AMP (1), AustralianSuper (16), CareSuper (5), NGS Super (5), QSuper (15) and Unisuper (2). Fifteen global investment managers supported all Say on Climate resolutions at companies they held in 2021: Abrdn (18), AllianceBernstein ...

Australia's first-ever Bitcoin ETF to launch next week

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
... Cosmos Asset Management and ETF Securities. However, these new developments come with interesting caveats. Unlike other global Bitcoin ETFs, Cosmos Asset Management won't invest in Bitcoin directly, but rather in shares of Purpose Investment's ...

Pendal rejects Perpetual bid

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... with a track record of delivering superior long-term performance. It argued the firm has brought together a compelling global distribution footprint across the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, the value of which is not adequately recognised in the Indicative ...

Perpetual moves to acquire Pendal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... assessment of the offer, however it noted that the offer comes at what is possibly an opportune time for Perpetual - when global geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty has materially impacted the trading values of global asset managers. The board ...

GAM loses insto mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... conflicts of interest as part of the misconduct that saw fixed income investment director Timothy Haywood terminated from the global manager in 2019. Haywood was also fined $400,000. Haywood was at the centre of a 2018 investigation that resulted in ...

Popularity soars for managed accounts

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
... who already use managed accounts are now recommending them for 60% of their clients, up from 44% in 2021. State Street Global Advisors head of SPDR ETFs Australia and model portfolios for EMEA and APAC Kathleen Gallagher said outsourcing some aspects ...