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Melbourne boutique wins Crestone allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... chief investment officer Giselle Roux and Kate Temby, who previously worked as Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Australia Pacific institutional sales and is now a partner at social bond investor Affirmative Investment Management. The rest of the ...

Impact investors team up for $48m investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
A freshly-minted Melbourne real assets boutique is leading a consortium of investors including the influential Ramsay Foundation to pour $48 million into 60 disability accommodation apartments. Conscious Investments Management is partnering with The ...

Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
Counting on your children's lives being better than yours? It's not a given as a new Actuaries Institute report finds the relative wealth and wellbeing of 25 to 34 year olds is the lowest in 18 years. The Actuaries Institute's publication ...

Future Super ramps up direct equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Ethical superannuation fund Future Super has increased its exposure to direct equities while staying true to its investment strategy. The fund has traditionally had almost all of its Australian equities exposure through the BetaShares Australian Sustainability ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Class Actions Australia has slammed new regulations announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg defining class actions as "managed investment schemes" labelling them "bizarre", as the Senate holds its second public hearing into litigation funding and the ...

Super to lose $3tn by 2040

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... ramifications. "This lower projected outlook for superannuation savings outlook could have significant economic consequences on Australia if it is not carefully managed," he said. "Super funds are major investors into Australia's economy with their ...

Ombudsman demands changes for small business insolvencies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... pandemic and the natural disasters which is likely to trigger insolvencies in the near future. "The reality is that Australia is now in the grip of a recession. Trading conditions are the worst we've seen since the Great Depression and many small ...

Australians without advice struggle in pandemic: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
New research has revealed the true value of advice, as the mental and financial wellbeing of Australia's unadvised population suffers from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Fidelity International's latest Pulse Survey, which gauged the mental and ...

Is the worst yet to come?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... markets are also in the midst of digesting the geopolitical machinations which he believes are pretty significant. "Australia, to some extent, is caught in the middle of a much bigger story between the US and China," he said. "I think, as the COVID crisis ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about ...