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BetaShares launches climate ETF

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... investors that provides exposures to global companies that will benefit from the megatrend. "The scale of the challenge the world faces means that innovation is called for in a range of climate- and environmentally-friendly activities," he said. "A focus ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... support but that Biden's proposal is excessive. "There is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation. I worry ...

HESTA awards tech mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The $56 billion industry fund has appointed a cloud investment platform to support its in-house portfolio management. The super fund selected SimCorp's Dimension as a Service to consolidate its investment data into one central location including ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a shallower contraction in world output for the year ended 2020 - minus 3.5%, down from the October forecast of a 4.4% contraction and the 4.9% decline it ...

Hostplus called out on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
The $50 billion industry super fund Hostplus is the latest fund to be the subject of a campaign from Market Forces, demanding it divest fossil fuels and develop a climate action plan. Activist group Market Forces recently had success lobbying UniSuper ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward." Biden led the way. He announced to the world that former President Donald Trump wrote a "very generous letter". There you go, Trump's human after all. POTUS 46's ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... relatively muted. Sterling's effective exchange rate has depreciated by 2.5% in 2020 -because central banks around the world have been responding almost in unison (through increased policy accommodation), leaving no single central bank at a relative ...

Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... own and suffer less loss of face, especially as everyone pretends not to have seen." But I digress. Australia could invoke World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and regulations or seek redress from the international trade body. But what good will it do ...

Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... 32.1% for the ASX All Ords and the ASX200, respectively." Zhong warned that Aussie firms and all listed firms around the world should be prepared for the trend towards enhanced diversity in senior management roles. Nasdaq also announced it partnered ...

Climate change-focused fund introduced

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... carbon economy. The Aviva Investors Climate Transition Global Equity Fund is benchmarked to outperform the MSCI All Countries World Index by 2% per annum on a rolling three-year basis, and is managed by portfolio manager Jaime Ramos Martin in partnership ...