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Asset managers want action on modern-day slavery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Asset management heavyweights are urging the nation's top 100 companies to take modern-day slavery and labour exploitation seriously by lifting the hood on their supply chains. The Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking (IAST) APAC, a newly-formed ...

Emotions lead to losses: Oxford Risk

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... behavioural finance Greg B. Davies said: "The suitability processes of many wealth management businesses are typically too human heavy, inefficient, and front loaded to the beginning of the client relationship to keep up with rapidly changing client ...

Jarden continues Australian expansion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
Kiwi investment bank Jarden is continuing to grow its Australian team, with a new appointment from Goldman Sachs. Catherine McCormack will join Jarden Australia as managing director and head of natural resources and utilities. She was previously managing ...

ASIC to curb huge CFD losses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... decrease the size and speed of retail clients' losses by reducing CFD exposure and sensitivity to market volatility. "Heavy losses sustained by retail clients trading in highly leveraged CFDs and ongoing market volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... estimates that roughly $2 trillion in enterprise value is at risk in the public equity markets across the retail categories with heavy real estate footprints, as shown below." Next on the list of bad ideas was linear TV, which refers to real-time traditional ...

Keep spending and investing: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... 35 losing their jobs in the early stages of the pandemic, and around 300,000 still out of work in August." Lowe said the heavy burden partly reflects the uneven way the pandemic has affected different industries. "The hospitality industry - in which ...

NZ firm hires 10 analysts in Australian expansion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
A New Zealand investment bank with expansion plans in Australia has revealed a "heavyweight" line-up of investment professionals joining its equities research team. Jarden announced it would be expanding into the Australian market in May of this year ...

Crypto exchange owners charged

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Services (Bermuda) Limited. In response to the charges, BitMEX responded: "We strongly disagree with the US government's heavy-handed decision to bring these charges, and intend to defend the allegations vigorously. From our early days as a start-up ...

Government declares record deficit, super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... 36% of gross domestic product, this year. This will peak at $966 billion or 44% of GDP in June 2024, he said. "This is a heavy burden, but a necessary one to responsibly deal with the greatest challenge of our time," Frydenberg said. "By comparison ...

Investors take charge in C-suite equality

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
A $52 billion industry superannuation fund has launched an initiative to increase gender diversity in the executive teams of the ASX200 companies and already has the support of industry heavyweights. HESTA's 40:40 Vision campaign has launched with eight ...