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Zurich pledges to COVID-19 support

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
Zurich Australia and OnePath Life announced donations to 20 charities with COVID-19 response funding. Zurich said it has made a $1.4 million donation from the Z Zurich Foundation to help local community programs respond to increased demand. Zurich ...

State Street rejigs international equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
State Street has relaunched an international equities fund for local investors looking for a climate change and ESG focused portfolio, with a new benchmark. The State Street Climate ESG International builds on a fund launched in 2016, which initially ...

Sargon liquidators want to dig deeper

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
Sargon Capital's liquidators are looking for extra funding to dig deeper into the company's transactions, potential claims and the possibility of a dividend payment to creditors. Wexted Advisors has asked Sargon's creditors, of which there ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
iShares today listed two exchange traded funds on the ASX that invest in Australian corporate bonds. The iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding ...

SMSFs to weather the storm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
While hundreds of thousands of Australians remove tens of millions from their superannuation accounts, SMSFs are holding their own. The most recent superannuation statistics released by APRA show there was a decrease of 7.7% in total superannuation ...

US regulator settles with Ares

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Ares Management LLC, which has a joint venture with Challenger's Fidante Partners in Australia via a related company, has paid US$1 million to settle charges alleging it traded in a portfolio company based on non-public information while an employee ...

Retirement funder adds two new executives

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Household Capital has announced it has added two new roles to its executive team including chief operating operator and chief credit officer. Luke Rattigan has been appointed to the newly created role of chief operating officer, with a primary focus ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Australian equities have not been immune to the effects of COVID-19, with company earnings taking a material hit, despite the equity market rallying from its lows in mid to late March, according to Zenith Investment Partners. Zenith said a flow on effect ...

Chief economist update: V could still become W

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
It had only been two months (three at most) when the coronavirus started infecting and slaying citizens of planet Earth. Under house arrest and in solitary confinement - forced upon society by social distancing measures and lockdown restrictions - it ...

Banks accused of violating worker ethics

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
In a new report, the Finance Sector Union has delved into how the industry's "capitalist ethics" violate the ethical integrity of workers. The report was commissioned by the FSU and completed by the Religion and Social Policy Network of the University ...