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Perth Mint to review audit processes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... will also assess Perth Mint's arrangements with licensed counterparties, which may deal with Artisanal Small-scale Mining (ASM). Perth Mint has a $508 million exchange traded product called the Perth Mint Gold (ASX: PMGOLD) which gives investors ...

New equity partners at Tribeca unit

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... Warren's hire, two other members of Tribeca's global natural resources team have been promoted to equity partners. Metals and mining analyst Michael Orphanides and head of commodities trading Guy Keller have been admitted as equity partners, according ...

Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... (SRI) and single sector SRI Australian equities options it offers its 800,000 members, following urgent meetings with the mining giant. The $100 billion super fund said it is "extremely concerned" about the events at Juukan Gorge, and engaged with Rio ...

Hold super accountable for miners' actions: Future Super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... significance to Indigenous Australians. Future Super co-founder and managing director Kirstin Hunter has disavowed the plans of mining giant BHP, which may destroy up to 86 significant Aboriginal heritage sites in the central Pilbara under plans to expand ...

High Court rules against Fortescue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... preventing news organisations from publishing details of price discounts offered in the low-grade iron ore market by Australian mining giant Fortescue Metals Group (FMG). FMG had applied for the injunction against two media organisations, S&P Global ...

Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... is professional, scientific and technical services with 107,333 enrolments accounting for nearly 15% of the total. The mining sector's revenues have proven the most resilient with only 1236 enrollments for the payments. Nearly 87% of the applications ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... expected to be around 16% lower. Business investment is expected to be around 18% lower with falls concentrated in the non-mining sector. Dwelling investment is also expected to be around 18% lower," he said. "Overall, the economic data has been sobering." ...

Industry fund reshuffles leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
The $11 billion industry fund for the coal mining sector, Mine Super, has a new deputy chief executive and a new chief risk officer. Vasyl Nair has transitioned from chief risk officer to deputy chief executive. Nair had been chief risk officer at the ...

Hedge fund with zero correlation to equities to launch

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... expected." To do this, the fund uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to test its strategies. "We are not just data mining looking for good trades, we specifically design trades to have around zero correlation to equities," Nguyen said. "Diversification ...

ESG-themed funds fall short of expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... fuel exposure of more than 17%. "Pendal Ethical Australian Share's PDS refers to exclusion of investment in companies mining uranium for weapons manufacture, alcohol or tobacco, gaming, weapons, or pornography," the report said. "The fund seeks exposure ...