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ASIC urged to act on common ownership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... index funds have 5% each of the stock market, but it could be a very big issue when they've got 10% or 20%." New research from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), which analysed the voting records of the nation's 50 largest ...

Office workers burnt out: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
New research from The Adecco Group Australia, released for R U OK? Day, has revealed that Australian office workers are the most burnt out in the world. More than half (53%) of Australian respondents say they suffered from burnout in the last 12 months ...

Morningstar business development lead to exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
... throughout the acquisition of AdviserLogic and the development of Morningstar's capabilities for IFAs. The fund manager and research house is now on the search for his replacement. "The new head of business development will be tasked with leading the ...

APAC pension funds fastest growing: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... the world's largest, with the Asia Pacific region clocking the largest rate of growth last year despite COVID-19. New research from the Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments shows the assets under management of those world's top 300 pension ...

MLC bolsters private equity team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... Ashini Ganesalingam also joined as a senior associate. She was previously a senior associate in private equity investment research at Aksia. She started as an analyst in that team. Both Chen and Ganesalingam will support the origination and execution ...

Retail, corporate funds lack transparency on ESG votes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... super funds continue to show a poor track record of how they vote on environmental, social and governance matters, new research shows. According to the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), which analysed the voting records of the ...

Gauging the Future Fund's MySuper potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... high performing investment fund, but to say it's the best fund in Australia is absurd," Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin said. "Commentators need to appreciate that it operates very differently to a super fund, so head-to-head comparisons ...

New investment model for affordable housing proposed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... funds. The concept of RTOs is not exceptional either, the RTOs in the boost program would function in the same way as research and development tax refunds. "We don't expect your investment teams to make any exceptions for affordable housing," she ...

How YFYS test will change currency investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... and incorporated into your currency analysis," Hoffman said. Mesirow looked at the ESG scores of 28 countries in its research. It found that emerging market economies had some of the lowest ESG scores, and he argued this should be considered in currency ...

Cracking the data science code

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... receive between 200-300 emails and an onslaught of data from fund managers (which didn't include other and independent research). "It [didn't] take long for us to drown in the information that was provided to us," he said. As a result, State ...