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More climate risk action needed: SSGA

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
State Street Global Advisors said it has prioritised a deeper examination of ESG integration across its investment strategies as it released its Annual Stewardship Report for 2019. While environmental, social, and governance considerations has always ...

Pendal hires State Street exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
Pendal Group appointed a former State Street and BlackRock executive to further expand its operations in the US as the new chief executive for the region. Nick Good takes the reins of Pendal subsidiary J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM), shortly ...

SSGA global equity beta head retires, promotes two

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
State Street Global Advisors has made two executive promotions as its local managing director and global equity beta lead exits the company after two decades. SSGA confirmed that Susan Darroch has retired as the senior managing director and head of ...

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
Alternatives managers continued to win the biggest slice of institutional mandates awarded in Australia in the year to March end, according to the latest Rainmaker Mandate Chaser report. Not-for-profit superannuation funds and investment managers handed ...

MAX awards recognise industry excellence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
More than 280 guests attended the 2019 Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising and Sales Excellence (MAX) Awards in Sydney last night, to recognise individuals and organisations in the wealth management industry. In its 24th year, the MAX Awards demonstrated ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
State Street Global Advisors will launch a suite of multi-asset ETF model portfolios that aim to meet financial advisers' demand for low cost and easy to implement solutions. The portfolios fall into two investment strategies: State Street Risk-Based ...

Managed accounts grow, but education remains low

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
Latest research shows managed accounts usage continues to grow in Australia, despite educational deficiencies. Global asset manager State Street Global Advisors released research in conjunction with Investment Trends that reveals almost double the amount ...

Fearless Girl comes to Melbourne

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
Cbus and HESTA, together with Maurice Blackburn, will bring the Fearless Girl statue to Australia in bid to stand for equality and diversity. The 50-inch bronze statue of a little girl standing defiantly in front of Wall Street's famous Charging ...

Ethical investments top mandate appointments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
An analysis of the 273 mandate appointments in the year to September 2018 demonstrates the rise of ethical investing. Rainmaker analysis shows ethical or responsible investments were the fastest growing asset class in the 12-month period. Allocations ...

Amundi Asset Management Australia chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
The chief executive of Amundi Asset Management Australia has departed following a restructure that will shift the business' sales and client servicing functions to a local distributor. Brian Scott was the chief executive of Amundi Asset Management Australia ...