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Industry fund promotes for GM role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... insurer after leaving ANZ Wealth where he was head of service and operations, global pensions and investments for close to six years. In confirming Madden's promotion, Daly also acknowledged Varcoe's work with the super fund. "Kieran made a huge contribution ...

Chief economist update: NIRP embedded in BOE forecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... PRA-regulated firms to ensure they commence preparations in order to be ready to implement a negative Bank Rate at any point after six months." No need to speculate whether the BOE will embark on a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) or not, the Monetary ...

Longstanding Challenger exec in new role

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... and we expect to make further announcements on these new ventures shortly," Parker said. The appointment comes as EG secured six acquisitions for $200 million over the last 12 months and launched a $400 million Singapore GIC mandate as well as a private ...

Iron Man launches VC funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... late-stage Series B - led by Downey Jr and tech investors and entrepreneurs Jonathan Schulhof and Steve Levin. The funds target six key areas: sustainability-focused consumer products and services; food and agriculture technology; materials and industrial ...

RSE trustee board composition evolving

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
In the last six years, independent directors have gone from holding 5.2% of the total board positions at RSE licensees to 10.7% of them as at June 2020, says new APRA data. The total directorships at responsible superannuation entity licensees shrunk ...

Malicious attacks most common in finance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... Commissioner Angelene Falk said 38% of all data breaches notified during the period were attributed to human error. "In the past six months, we saw an increase in human error breaches both in terms of the total number of notifications received - up 18% ...

Centuria spends big ahead of fund launch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... this fund and hope to meet our equity raising target of $40 million by the end of February." The fund provides an initial six-year fund term with a 6% pa forecast FY21 distribution yield growing to 6.25%pa in FY22. The fund is part of Centuria's strategy ...

Big year for ESG ahead: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... feel there is room to grow with 86% agreeing that 'more needs to be done' or 'there's a long way to go'. "In the space of six or 12 months, investors have gone from thinking about ESG as a side issue to thinking about it as completely core to the future ...

Chief economist update: Inflation lifted by smokers with young children and homebuilders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... Christmas period, and medical and hospital services (+2.5%), after private health premiums increased on October 1 following a six-month freeze," ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said. Electricity prices dropped by 7.5% over the quarter ...

Charity LIC chief executive to depart

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
Future Generation companies' chief executive Louise Walsh will leave after six years and look for new role. Walsh will step down from the role in April. Wilson Asset Management chief executive Kate Thorley, who is also a director at Future Generation ...