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Boutique launches Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... strong balance sheet and capital management potential, which are currently being undervalued on traditional earnings-based metrics. Lastly, yielders (Suncorp, BHP) are companies that have little growth but have good valuations and sustainable cash-backed ...

Credit Suisse names preferred investment options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... attract strong inflows," it said. "Weak markets in the last half generally resulted in a deterioration in profitability metrics despite a slowing rate of decline in management fee margin contraction, higher performance fee margins and general efforts ...

CFA Institute call for feedback on new standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... is for investors that aim to invest in companies and issuers that perform better than peers on one or more performance metrics related to ESG matters. In addition, CFA Institute has included ESG-related thematic focus which is defined as aiming to invest ...

Global fund manager enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... seeking." Ivka Kalus, Promethos chief investment officer, believes Australian investors align to the firm's values on ESG metrics. "Our investment process ensures that we stay true to client values while seeking to generate market-beating returns ...

Northern Trust launches ESG capability

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... be used to "gain fund-level oversight of environmental risks and drill-down to compare key scores and carbon footprint metrics across individual managers, portfolios, countries or sectors," Northern Trust said. The categories can also help asset owners ...

MySuper portfolio winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... coming in at 0.3. Although skewness and kurtosis are not "household concepts", Dyall argues it is important to use these metrics to help identify how funds manage investment risk. "The most recent three years shows that funds with outliers of these parameters ...

CBA profit takes hit, dividend cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... products, services and technology. "We further strengthened our balance sheet across key capital, funding and liquidity metrics. This has allowed us to support customers and shareholders, while continuing to invest in innovation for the future," he said. ...

Adviser salaries unchanged: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... from revenue-only linked bonuses to a balanced scorecard method that looks at financial and non-financial performance metrics. Kaizen said the change in bonus structures could be attributed to the Royal Commission as firms are ensuring clients are serviced ...

Diversity screening option launched

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... diversity. Investor's stocks are held in a separately managed account allowing them to filter investments for major all ESG metrics.

Chief economist update: Australian outlook under COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... discipline". One that's echoed by Moody's Investors Services: "Notwithstanding the impact on the country's fiscal metrics over the next two years outlined in the update, we expect Australia's AAA rating to remain resilient". These are ...