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Top ETF megatrends: Global X

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... to jumpstart rapid decarbonisation - 5% market penetration is predicted to be the trigger for rapid uptake of EVs in a country. After Norway achieved 5%, sales jumped to nearly 15% the next year. China is following Norway's lead, only a couple years ...

EG expands into private debt market

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... investors the opportunity to diversify into the private debt market to service capital products for property sites across the country. Initially, the joint venture will engage wholesale investors and family offices, with private debt secured by residential ...

Fitch gives Labor budget AAA rating

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
For the first time under a Labor government, Fitch has handed down a AAA rating to the May budget. In a statement, Fitch applauded the government for its spending restraint and said the nation's public finances had outperformed expectations. "The commitment ...

Packer donates $7m to mental health research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... recently celebrated its 60-year anniversary, is widely renowned as the pre-eminent psychiatry research department in the country and one of the leading university psychiatry research groups internationally. Meanwhile, Mindgardens is the first research ...

AustralianSuper to refund 100k members

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... will refund $70 million it overcharged 100,000 members after it failed to detect that they had multiple accounts. The country's largest superfund has self-reported itself to regulators after realising it overcharged current and former members with multiple ...

New local lead for Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... wonderful clients and colleagues in a business with Morningstar's mission, brand and capabilities." Replacing Wickham as country leader for Australia and New Zealand is Chris Galloway, currently looking after the Morningstar wealth business. Kapoor described ...

UBS outlines new operating model, leadership

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
... focus, while supporting the integration process, UBS said. It further appointed previous chief operating officer and UK country head of asset management Michelle Bereaux to the role of group integration officer, Mike Dargan to group chief operations ...

Kilter Rural launches $500m agriculture fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
... access to groundwater, and with the surrounding pipeline properties, we get access to the irrigation system as well... In a country that suffers a lot of droughts, three access points is good." Gunn said Kilter Rural has always been accepting of the ...

High returns flow from water rights

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
... investing in water isn't correlated to equity markets, but rather the seasonal climate impacts, which vary across the country and years. "We mitigate this variability in our fund by having a geographically diverse set of water rights and different classes ...

Citi names local chief executive

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
Citi has promoted interim country officer Mark Woodruff to the role of chief executive, Australia and head of Citi's Australia and New Zealand cluster. Woodruff, who has been with the bank for 20 years, has also previously served as head of markets ...