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Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... or negligence with respect to updates on price sensitive information to the market". This will discourage "opportunistic class actions" under continuous disclosure laws, he said, noting that during the temporary provision period (due to expire in March ...

ASIC to take targeted approach with PIP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... extremely important addition to ASIC's regulatory toolkit. It allows us to intervene where we are satisfied that a product (or class of products) is likely to result in significant consumer detriment." Additionally, Hughes said PIP enables ASIC to confront ...

Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... private equity, and infrastructure, appear to be contributing to the success, the research found, noting that this asset class over a 20 year-period has grown from about 7% to above 26%. "Alternatives have been attractive for return reasons, offsetting ...

Class makes acquisition, profit up

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... accounting software provider and recorded a 3.2% increase in statutory profit to $3.2 million in its half-year results. Class is acquiring ReckonDocs for an enterprise value of $13 million with the transaction expected to be completed on March 1. ReckonDocs ...

New corporate bond fund launches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... to a diversified portfolio of green, sustainable and social bonds. Artesian said it is not necessary to sacrifice best of class, risk adjusted returns while pursuing transformational impact investments. The fund aims to outperform commonly used "vanilla ...

Aussie super funds and Biden's US infra push

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... these initiatives will create jobs, he said, as its mantra is "creating good paying or 'union jobs' creates middle-class jobs". At this stage, details about the conditions on funding the government will provide are unclear.

AMP Capital still being dressed up for sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... to our clients and engaging them in one-to-one conversations on the actions we are putting on the table to become best in class in the management of conduct in the workplace - making sure that we have a high performing and inclusive culture." "The work ...

Two ASI executives out the door

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has lost two of its executives with their roles being absorbed by the other team members. Former institutional director Andrew Heyden spent just shy of 15 years at ASI before departing the firm at the end of 2020. ...

ASX profits slide, names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... recently head of markets and investor services for Asia Pacific at J.P. Morgan. Roche has extensive experience in cross-asset class expertise across equities, fixed income and commodities. "It is an honour to be elected chairman of ASX and to follow ...

Local managed funds fee revenues shrinks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
Wholesale managed funds reaped $4.5 billion in fee revenue in 2020 but average fees were down 6bps, according to new Rainmaker research. Rainmaker analysed more than 1000 managed funds which had $588 billion in total assets. The average fee wholesale ...