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Boutique investment manager continues retail trend

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
A Sydney-based boutique investment manager is joining the shift towards an increasingly sophisticated retail market, launching a retail class of its flagship concentrated global equities fund. Avenir Capital will make the Avenir Global Fund accessible ...

CBA commits to bond-structured climate change solutions

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... investors about the risks climate change will have on its business." Research from financial services activist group Market Forces shows that since Commonwealth Bank first committed to support the goal of holding global warming to below two degrees ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... landscape, because they haven't been able to convince customers to move away from incumbents," Lipman said. "Incumbents' market scale and broad customer bases ensured they maintained their competitive advantage." The report identifies eight key forces ...

Former investment bankers behind new platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... updated and visible on the investor's own dashboard on the platform. The dashboard also provides access to a unique secondary market in which units can be traded with other investors on the platform. "Our partnering lending model allows us to access ...

Environment to reshape real estate investment: LaSalle

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... not prevalent, sustainability standards in global real estate are changing due to evolving certification systems, market forces and governments recognising the need to involve the real estate sector in order to meet their climate change objectives," ...

Super funds must address climate risk: Market Forces

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... has left them vulnerable to legal action according to a financial services activist group. Analysis provided by Market Forces, an affiliate project of environmental group Friends of the Earth, showed public disclosures of Australia's 100 largest superannuation ...

Technology and mergers threaten insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... insurance industry is at a tipping point and up until now, insurers felt regulation would protect them from disruptive market forces, but that is no longer the case. "In the year ahead, we will see further consolidation. The insurers who prosper will ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Although not completely gangbusters, the latest Australian labour market update provided another justification for the optimism and seemingly hawkish turn the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... of 2017 and the high of 2.63% recorded in March. Then there was Super Mario of the ECB whose comment that, "deflationary forces have been replaced by reflationary ones", were interpreted at hinting that normalisation is coming. Add to this BOC chief ...

Major US pension fund divests Australian coal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... outweighs the ability of thermal coal companies to continue to create long-term value." Environmental finance group Market Forces has called on Australian super funds and asset managers to follow the move and divest from Australian coal companies. "Almost ...