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Bank of Mum and Dad forking out serious dosh

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... of low interest rates and people gearing their investments to the max, locking younger generations out of the property market with high prices. "The need for this is more out of necessity," he said. "We have seen low interest rates that have allowed ...

UniSuper on climate chopping block

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Market Forces has put UniSuper on the chopping block in a divestment campaign aimed at pressuring the fund to ditch shares in fossil fuel companies. "UniSuper does not have fund-wide exclusions on fossil fuel investments of any kind. Instead, it claims ...

Chief economist update: The rise and fall of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... mb/d on December 6 last year. The balance of probabilities points to continued oil price gains in 2020. In its latest Oil Market Report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast "global oil demand forecasts unchanged at 1 mb/d in 2019 and 1.2 mb/d ...

Market Forces takes aim at big banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
Controversial campaigner Market Forces have well and truly set its sights on Australia's big banks. After hitting Suncorp with a shareholder resolution in July, Market Forces has ramped up its efforts to influence Australia's largest financial institutions. ...

Industry fund partners with global asset manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... approach. "With rigorous portfolio implementation, our investment strategy helps achieve investment objectives across all market cycles. It's a time-tested, methodical, and repeatable process," Kelly said. Sunsuper head of asset allocation Andrew ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
National Australia Bank has been accused in no uncertain terms of greenwashing. Activist group Market Forces said NAB's new climate policy, released as part of its latest Sustainability Report, is "little more than greenwash and a recipe for climate ...

Copia secures exclusive partnership

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... of ECP said: "We are excited to join forces with Copia as we take our institutional investment capability to the retail market." "Copia has a proven track record in raising assets in the financial advice channel and we view our partnership as a good ...

Legal fight could change super game

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... investments. For Rest it was unknown, so that spurred me along because I wanted to know." That online tool was on the Market Forces website. McVeigh emailed Rest and found that it could not offer him the information that he was seeking. "I always assumed ...

Is EM an investor's saving grace?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... from long-term structural developments." Fidelity said that for investors searching for growth, structural and cyclical forces are combining to highlight the attractiveness of Asia as a destination for investment. Doyle said that interest rates cuts ...

Morningstar bets on advice software

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... company. The other co-founder and current chief executive Daniel Gara will stay and lead the product development and go-to-market efforts for AdviserLogic. In all, over 80 AdviserLogic staff across Australia and India will move to being employed by Morningstar. ...