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Australia ranked seventh for retirement wellbeing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... quality health services and a clean and safe environment. Australia got an overall score of 76%. It ranked fourth in the world for finances in retirement but 10th for health. Where Australia did poorly was in the material wellbeing area - the means to ...

Swell AM launches retail trust

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... years to July 31, the Swell Global Portfolio delivered an annualised return of 20.67%. It outperformed its benchmark, MSCI World Index, by 5.6%. The Swell Global Portfolio was only accessible to wholesale investors, but the new trust will see this strategy ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... continuing to perform strongly and economies rebounding, supported by accommodative fiscal and monetary policy around the world, we're possibly looking at a period of increasing inflation and rising interest rates. That combination should weigh on ...

Office workers burnt out: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... Adecco Group Australia, released for R U OK? Day, has revealed that Australian office workers are the most burnt out in the world. More than half (53%) of Australian respondents say they suffered from burnout in the last 12 months, coming in 15% higher ...

ASX eyes a bigger slice of fixed income active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... we've probably missed out on five or 10 [ETFs] in the last two to three years, some from boutique managers and some from the world's biggest fixed income managers," Campion said "Fixed income is one of the fastest-growing parts of the ETP market in Australia ...

HESTA hires growth executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... our partners." In addition to his role at HESTA, Mitchell-Adams serves as director of operations at sustainability fintech World Wide Generation.

State Street acquires custodian for $4.7bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
State Street Corporation will acquire the custody business of a competitor for $4.74 billion (US$3.5bn). New York-headquartered Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has entered into a definitive agreement with State Street to sell BBH Investor Services ...

APAC pension funds fastest growing: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
Sixteen of Australia's pension funds are among the world's largest, with the Asia Pacific region clocking the largest rate of growth last year despite COVID-19. New research from the Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments shows the assets ...

Mercer hires regional endowments lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... senior consultant in 2015. Dunn said: "In the current economic environment, endowments and foundations are facing a new world with new challenges. Market volatility has tested many governance structures, and the years ahead will redefine how endowments ...

Forrest pitches a green Fortescue to super funds

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... cope 3 emissions targets, and we will discuss on public record how it will help customers," Forrest said. "Look around the world...and any major carbon emitter, heavy manufacturing, heavy industry company [that have] said right, we will follow Fortescue ...