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NZ Super Fund hires asset allocation head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... as the NZ Super Fund continues to grow," Gilmore said. Prior to joining NZ Super Fund, Hyde was head of quantitative research at MIR Investment Management and head of equities research and equity quant strategies at CommSec. Hyde was also principal economist ...

Teachers Mutual launches neobank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... sectors and combines digital banking technology and responsible investing. Teachers Mutual Bank launched the bank following research that found 37% of essential workers were likely to choose a digital bank over the next three years. Hiver has launched ...

Franklin Templeton shutters fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... FUM in the near term that it is in the best interests of all unitholders to wind up the fund," said Morningstar in a research note. The fund was offered in two share classes which together had about $77 million in assets. It was managed by Alastair Hunter ...

Advisers turn to ETFs during COVID

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... global pandemic hit as new trading data shows that index funds are providing better means of diversification. AUSIEX research found that before COVID-19, one in five advisers trading via platforms invested in ETFs. This figure has now gone up to one ...

Verve Super launches gender diversity index

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... companies performing poorly on gender equality over the coming years towards those with better practices. "For decades research has shown that companies that promote gender equality and inclusion perform better, yet no Australian super fund has previously ...

Aussie PE, VC assets hit milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... private equity and venture capital firms' assets reached a record high of $18.4 billion (US$14bn), according to new research. The Alternative Assets in Asia-Pacific report compiled by Preqin saw a 20% jump in the total capital raised by Australia-focused ...

ASX200 sexual harassment transparency needed: ACSI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... for preventing and responding to sexual harassment but it remains unclear who in the company holds accountability, new research shows. The report, Equality across the board: Investing in workplaces that work for everyone, was undertaken by the Australian ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
Researchers from the University of New South Wales have issued an alarming report on the state of the Australian housing market, referring to it as a "beast" that is "rampaging through the economy". The researchers are calling for a Royal Commission ...

Index fund tops risk-adjusted rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... normal is the distribution compared with their peers and have to do with the shape of the distribution's tails. The research reviews more than 1100 managed investment products. Macquarie Investment Management products had the highest number of mentions ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... 2.3% in the month of May (from April's 1.8%) to be 9.1% higher from a year earlier. Not only that, CoreLogic's research director, Tim Lawless, observes that "growth conditions remained broad based both geographically and across the housing types ...