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Funding for housing to decrease

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation to issue an additional $1 billion worth of bonds to attract institutional investment to increase the supply of affordable housing. The reforms complement the government's announced changes to Australia's ...

ESG ETF demand rises: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... will eventually substitute the actively-managed part of their portfolios. More than half (55%) of the global 191 institutional investors, and asset and private wealth managers in the EDHEC-Risk Institute's annual survey are using ETFs to gain an ...

Fund manager hires client experience lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... James Cardew as its new head of marketing and client experience for Asia and Europe, responsible for overseeing institutional and financial intermediary clients. He will lead a team of digital, brand, content and product marketers across Asia and Europe ...

Vanguard to cull institutional mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
The investing giant will wind up mandates with 12 local institutional investors, as it pivots away from the lower-fee business line to retail, adviser and its in-house super offering. Vanguard will discontinue special mandates but still allow them in ...

Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Institutional fund managers have pumped $43 million into life insurance startup Integrity Life to help it expand and build out its digital offering. The majority of the capital came from Schroders Investment Management based in Switzerland, Leadenhall ...

Less might be more in ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
A new study from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has revealed companies which received a single ESG-related shareholder proposal had a higher median sustainability improvement compared to those with many proposals. The impact of the first ESG-related ...

MLC appoints new head of insto distribution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
MLC Asset Management has appointed a head of institutional distribution, a new role that has been created as the business transitions following the sale to IOOF. Read Taylor Price steps into the role, joining MLC from Fisher Investments where he has ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... investment director after 12 years on the team. She joined Aberdeen in 2008 from Citigroup where she was vice president institutional research sales in Australia and New York. The Aussie equities team at Aberdeen Standard managed about $1 billion in ...

Lazard launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... a right to convert the bond into equity shares. "Convertible bonds have started to earn dedicated allocations in institutional portfolios and, as such, we believe these securities are beginning to be viewed as a distinct asset class," Brillois said. ...

Super-backed company develops COVID treatment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... COVID-19 virus to infect the animals used in the study. Ena Respiratory raised $11.7 million from a coalition of institutional Australian investors in a capital raise led by Brandon Capital, a venture capital firm that manages the Medical Research Commercialisation ...