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Bravura secures new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... new range of education bonds. Bravura said Futurity is a member-owned organisation that provides savings and investment plans for families to support their education aspirations and is the largest provider of education bonds in Australia. "Garradin will ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... on how companies manage the wellbeing of their stakeholders during the crisis." As businesses activate their contingency plans and Australia's workforce shifts to working from home, companies with authentic stakeholder relationships will thrive ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... the notion of "working from home" was a privilege a select few enjoyed. Now, with businesses activating their contingency plans, flexible working is truly being put to the test. UBS real estate strategist Fergus Hicks believes this shift will disrupt ...

Warakirri appoints exclusive manager for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... equities, $75 million in international equities) as the sole manager under a new strategic partnership. The two also have plans to introduce emerging market equities funds. Warrakirri will continue to do the ethical overlays for Australian and global ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... (whenever and whatever that may look like), many of these companies will be in a position to move forward." Changes to travel plans had materially impacted infrastructure stocks, despite their perception as being traditionally "defensive". "Infrastructure ...

Super funds must prioritise liquidity: Regulators

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... critical functions and determining (in conjunction with outsourced providers) essential staffing levels and contingency plans to ensure essential member transactions proceed in a timely manner, particularly where such activities are undertaken offshore." ...

Vanguard launches simplified investment platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... to access the platform. Eventually, the firm will add international shares to the brokerage service, and holds long-term plans to develop a superannuation offer. "The Personal Investor offer caters for investors looking to access Vanguard's broad range ...

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Australia's biggest companies are dragging us in completely the wrong direction, pursuing new fossil fuel projects and business plans that spell the failure of the Paris Agreement. And they're using our retirement savings to do it," Market Forces ...

Schroders appoints regional leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Debruyne said. Separately, the firm has been preparing to bring a private equity fund to Australia later this year, with plans afoot to use a fund-of-fund structure to invest in externally-managed private equity funds. The offering sits under the Schroder ...

Extraordinary stimulus provides wage subsidy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... formalised and redundancy payments paid the issue may be more complicated. The government is drafting the legislation and plans to recall parliament early. Morrison said the legislation will take at least a week to draft and the opposition will have ...