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Allianz Retire+ moves to increase retiree confidence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
Allianz Retire+ is partnering with a goals-based advice technology outfit to offer advisers more certainty when building retiree portfolios with its Future Safe investment product. Allianz Retire+ has partnered with Investfit to create a portfolio construction ...

McGrathNicol launches cyber protection tool

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... warning risk analytics based on behavioural activity profiling over the next 12 months. I anticipate the outcomes of the project will have national, if not international, reach and impact."

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
The economic impact of the coronavirus has been grossly underestimated, with jolts likely to be felt well into the second quarter. That's according to Capital Group economist Stephen Green, in a speech televised to attendees at the recent Financial ...

Former Macquarie adviser cops lifetime ban

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... regulator's wealth management project, which aims to lift standards among Australia's major financial advice providers. The project focuses on the conduct of large firms such as NAB, Westpac, CBA, ANZ and AMP.

Former CFS GAM head in new venture

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... do we need to do to bend the emissions curve, and fast." The update included a call for volunteers to register with the project as well as a fundraising push. Altiorem has attracted $155,000 in seed funding since February 2019 from the Alerce Trust and ...

Green light for $1b Cbus tower

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... Street sites and is anticipated to serve as a "vertical village". Cbus Property's chief executive, Adrian Pozzo, said the project team was pleased to be able to proceed with the development, which he hopes will optimise the sites' potential and create ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted an upturn in the global economy in 2020, though the biggest risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

TCorp launches new bond

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
TCorp, the investment and financial management partner for the NSW public sector, is launching a new bond. The 1.25% sustainability bond issue proceeds are earmarked to finance a combination of green and social assets. The pool of projects has already ...

APRA begins super data transformation efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... meaningful industry-wide comparisons. APRA released a discussion paper to outline the scope, objectives and approach of the project, which Rowell hopes will provide "clarity and consistency" to areas of industry tension. She added that the program would ...