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Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... revealed in the Royal Commission and alleges it contravened obligations owed to clients when taking commissions from product issuers or clients. Piper Alderman alleges Count Financial did not ensure its financial advisers did not contravene their legal ...

ASIC relaxes IPO red tape

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... the ordinary and necessary preparatory work of a company before an IPO," it said. The relief is provided subject to the issuers meeting certain requirements and conditions of the relief and ASIC will continue to consider individual relief applications ...

CFA Institute call for feedback on new standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... disclosure requirements which are different from the current standards that sets disclosure requirements for corporate issuers prescribe requirements for the labelling or rating of securities or investment products, or define best practice for a strategy ...

Invesco inks ESG plan

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... investments." The fund manager said its role is to engage with its current holdings as well as search out and find new issuers that are investing in technologies that aim to limit the temperature increase while creating value for investors. "This would ...

UBS to cough up $14m over bond bungle

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... the investment manager to "obtain bonds for its own inventory, thereby circumventing the priority of orders set by the issuers and improperly obtaining a higher priority in the bond allocation process". UBS has consented to a cease-and-desist order which ...

Industry funds team up in longevity search

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... the providers come back with solutions that need, rather than the other way around. "It takes away the risk from product issuers as well," he said.

Pendal winds back fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... been running since 1986 and invests in short-term money market securities issued by banks, corporations and similar local issuers. The Pendal Stable Cash Plus Fund has about $1.8 billion in assets and invests in combination of money market instruments ...

Pendal adds SRI lense to multi-asset fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... new set of screens to its $189 million multi-asset target return fund, which will see it steer clear of companies and issuers directly involved in tobacco production and controversial weapons manufacture. Led by Pendal multi-asset head Michael Blayney ...

Fixed income investors get new ESG rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... firm said ESG conversations had become important to investors, with 82% of its meetings with sovereign and corporate debt issuers coring ESG topics last year, a 54% increase from 2018. Insight senior ESG analyst Joshua Kendall said the firm's analysts ...

S&P warns of record fallen angels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... said the US has the largest number of potential "fallen angel" companies with 58 in rated debt. There have been 30 bond issuers worldwide to receive fallen angel status and a record 126 on a rating of BBB-, the lowest investment-grade rung. The ratings ...