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Client communication investment needed: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... the biggest barriers for firms to invest in client communications is how it generates revenue mainly due to efficiency metrics. The survey revealed firms measure the time taken to create content (83%) and low error rates (73%) to measure while only 14% ...

Buffett doesn't want to report on diversity, climate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... shareholders to vote against two separate proposals urging the firm to disclose its climate-related risks and diversity metrics. Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting is scheduled for May 1. Proxy voting directions filed with the Securities and Exchange ...

AMP announces new managed portfolio partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... transparency for clients, giving them ownership of the underlying assets in the funds, with visibility of performance metrics through regular and transparent reporting," Egan said. "We're continuing to invest in and expand our MyNorth managed portfolio ...

Frontier zeroes in on poor culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... signs of concern, we have developed an internal framework to help us fully explore those cases," he said. Some of the metrics Frontier will look at include how clients are treated in terms of transparency around communication and action following an ...

Industry fund awards ESG mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... and one of the risk categories we look at is ESG," Hutchison said. State Street's ESG analytics platform includes ESG metrics such as water and waste management, labour practices, employee diversity and inclusion, business model resilience, business ...

Metrics launches NZ fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
Metrics Credit Partners has launched a private debt fund for wholesale investors in New Zealand with a target annual return of 3.25% over the RBNZ cash rate. The Metrics Multi-Strategy Private Debt (NZ) Fund marks the Pinnacle boutique's first investment ...

CFOs gain clout in ESG metrics

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
Many companies are housing the ultimate responsibility for ESG with their chief financial officers, says a new report from Accenture. Accenture interviewed about 1517 finance leaders including chief financial officers from around the globe for the seventh ...

HUB24, Netwealth top platform rankings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... with a total score of 89%, just beating Netwealth on 88.9%. Investment Trends said HUB24 scored highly across all six metrics measured, while Netwealth scored highly across four of the six. "The narrow difference in overall platform functionality scores ...

Asset managers move to ESG

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... within the next three to five years. Despite this, Australia is lagging the rest of the APAC region in climate change metrics with only 24% of investors analysing them compared to 56% of New Zealand Investors and the global average of 42%. MSCI president ...

ETF liquidity disappears: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... spread to $100K for fixed income - Australian dollar ETFs was 571% and 728%, respectively, and the increase in those same metrics for fixed income - global ETFs was 479% and 569%," Morningstar said. "Suffice to say the trading environment through this ...