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ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australasian sustainable funds attracted inflows worth more than $207 million in the second quarter of 2020, with Australian Ethical and Dimensional reaping the majority of these rewards. Morningstar's latest Global Sustainable Fund Flows report, which ...

Life insurance at tipping point: Industry leaders

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... thrive and survive." Delaney agreed, noting there had been an "acquisition bias" in the industry for a very long time. A major challenge facing the industry was the interplay between the need for new business and products and managing the needs of the ...

Spend your money how you please: PM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
The Prime Minister has said it is not the government's place to tell Australians how to spend the money they have removed from super due to the Early Release of Super (ERS) scheme. Speaking at a press conference Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the ...

AIST pushes for policy reform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... energy and infrastructure. This would help to create jobs and reduce energy demand through the green retrofitting of existing major building assets, particularly office buildings, Scheerlinck said. "Profit-to-member super funds are already significant ...

Macquarie fired 32 people in "consequence management"

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... 2020. "Macquarie remains well positioned to deliver superior performance in the medium term due to its deep expertise in major markets, strength in business and geographic diversity and ability to adapt its portfolio mix to changing market conditions ...

IOOF increases FUMA, lifts remediation costs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... the impacts of the pandemic. IOOF chief executive Renato Mota said: "The recent recovery in equity markets has been the major contributor to the $6.7 billion uplift in FUMA and pleasingly, we have continued to attract strong flows into our platforms. ...

Watchdog warns of celebrity-endorsed bitcoin scams

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... watchdog said, pointing to fake websites posing as crypto trading robots and cryptocurrency "pump-and-dump" scams as two key major concerns. A trading bot is a software program that automatically trades cryptocurrencies on the user's behalf, such ...

Chief economist update: Gold 2000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Gold prices have already been on the up and up last year, buoyed by major world central banks' about face towards a more accommodative policy - led by the US Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts (July, September and October 2019). Gold prices ...

Westpac announces appointment, departure

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... leading large global teams," he said. "He has a proven track record of delivering large-scale transformation programs at major international banks that improve operating and technology performance. "We look forward to Scott leading our technology and ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Australian investors are considerably more dissatisfied with portfolio performance than their global peers, according to bfinance's mid-year Asset Owner Survey. Over 40% of super fund respondents in Australia have been dissatisfied with the performance ...