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Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
The CSIRO has recommended a more lenient approach to regulation in the corporate world in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. The science body noted that Australia's strong regulatory environment ...

Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF and Vanguard FTSE Emergind Markets Shares ETF. In fourth place, iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and rounding out the top five was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Further demonstrating Vanguard's strength, all five of ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... generate more than 25% of their revenue from thermal coal production from its discretionary active investment portfolios, and by mid-2020, too. It's not known how much of their portfolio is currently weighted by thermal coal production as much of ...

Industry fund appoints investment head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
The former chief investment officer of a $4 billion superannuation fund has resurfaced in the same role at another industry fund. TWU Super has confirmed to Financial Standard the appointment of a new chief investment officer in former legalsuper investment ...

GAM partners with SimCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
GAM Investments has signed a new long term licence agreement with investment management solutions provider SimCorp. The global asset manager will partner with SimCorp to consolidate its external front and middle office systems on to a single platform. ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... Boxing Day sales. The Australian Retailers Association forecast $18.7 billion will pass through the tills between Christmas and mid-January; a 2.3% increase from 2018." Hip, hip. The RBA wouldn't need to exhaust all its interest rate cut bullets ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
The global economy is toeing a fine line between economic growth and recession, with a number of threats poised to disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020 ...

LGIAsuper offloads European assets

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... 80,000 members has its benefits. "As a boutique super fund our point of difference is that we are able to pursue profitable mid-market investments because we can react quickly to opportunities in ways that big funds may not," Farrar said. "It's why we ...

Chief economist update: Moving target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... target... to between 1 and 3%". That is, the RBA should start raising interest rates if measured inflation breaches the 2% mid-point (instead of the current 2.5%) and vice-versa. Sure, the Fed and the RBA will have a better chance of achieving their ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
Fears of escalating tensions between the US and Iran have sent gold skyrocketing to an almost seven-year high, with investors turning to bullion, mining shares and gold-backed ETFs to safeguard their wealth. Fuel was added to gold's fire after US ...