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EY bolsters financial services law team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
Global management consultancy Ernst and Young boosted its local financial services legal team with the appointment of an alternative investments specialist. Former Norton Rose Fullbright partner Nikki Bentley joined EY Australia this month as a partner ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... this time is different. The US unemployment rate is at near 49-year lows at 3.7% (July)... but it was also clocking multi-decade lows (4.4% December 2006) before the US economy receded. So much so, that the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's article ...

SSGA global equity beta head retires, promotes two

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
State Street Global Advisors has made two executive promotions as its local managing director and global equity beta lead exits the company after two decades. SSGA confirmed that Susan Darroch has retired as the senior managing director and head of ...

Industry expert to bolster Chi-X capabilities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... service function and technology infrastructure in preparation for Chi-X's predicted future growth. Warton spent almost a decade at the ASX in a software development capacity before moving to the London Metals Exchange. He then spent time as head of client ...

AFA names education award finalists

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... of the growing importance of professional education" has prompted an increasing focus on adviser education in the past decade. "Excellence in education inspires greater adviser confidence in their ability and greater consumer trust in advice," he added. ...

Gender wealth gap down to 11%: Roy Morgan

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
The average net wealth gap between men and women has almost halved in the last 12 years, according to the latest Roy Morgan Wealth Report. Statistics from the report show the average net wealth for women today sits at 89% that of men - $400,000, to ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
BlackRock has lost more than US$90 billion ($133bn) by investing in fossil fuel-dependent companies over the last decade, a new report criticising the world's largest fund manager about its failure to manage climate risk shows. The Institute for ...

Super fund turns to food sustainability

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... production, utilisation, and wastage in agriculture, given the trends in global food demand that would see a 10% growth each decade over the next 30 years. Much of the focus on food investments to date has been based on the growth of the Asian middle ...

EQT welcomes head of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
Equity Trustees has hired a former Mercer principal as its new head of insurance. Princess Navarro, who was most recently Mercer's insurance, policy and governance leader, has linked with EQT after nearly two decades with the implemented consulting ...

Australian equity markets remain clean: ASIC

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... 487) that found an overall improvement in the measures of cleanliness in the Australian listed equity market over the past decade. Market cleanliness fluctuated between 2015 and 2018. Despite deterioration in 2016, market cleanliness improved in 2017 ...