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Future Fund adds to ESG leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2022
The Future Fund has recruited a high-profile industry executive to its investment stewardship team. Karin Halliday will join the Future Fund as director, investment stewardship and ESG, the sovereign wealth fund has confirmed. Halliday will report to ...

Challenger offers new fixed term annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
Challenger has launched a new guaranteed fixed three-year term annuity at 4.4% per annum. It said investors who choose to receive all their capital back at the end of the term will receive guaranteed annual payments over the period. The investment manager ...

Aware Super launches $7 billion property arm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
Aware Super has launched its real estate arm and intends to hold $7 billion in assets within five years. First announced in June, Aware Real Estate will actively manage the super fund's directly owned Australian living, industrial, office and mixed-use ...

UniSuper appoints ESG manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
UniSuper has appointed Jodie Barns as ESG manager. Barns will be responsible for qualifying and quantifying ESG considerations in investments and operations, to inform decisions taken in investments. Barns joins the fund from the Australian Council ...

Kim Kardashian launches PE firm with Carlyle veteran

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... expertise of Jay Sammons who was most recently Carlyle Group's global head of consumer, media and retail. Together, the two plan to invest in and build growth-oriented consumer and media companies, specifically targeting the consumer products, digital ...

RBA signals further interest rate rises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Phillip Lowe has said the board will do what's necessary to ensure inflation in Australia returns to target. At its meeting yesterday, the board increased the cash rate target by 50 basis points to 2.35%. "The ...

APRA aims to bolster financial crisis response

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
APRA has begun consulting on new prudential standards to strengthen the financial crisis response of banks, insurers and superannuation trustees. The regulator said the two proposed standards are aimed at ensuring entities are prepared to deal with ...

Financial literacy in Australia drops by almost 10%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
New data has revealed that more than a third of Australians are financially illiterate. Greater Bank and the University of Newcastle surveyed 575 women and 536 men aged from 18-90 years. The joint report titled: Financial Wellbeing and General Life ...

Increasing number of advisers look to self-licence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... shows. According to Investment Trends' Adviser Business Model Report, about 70% of those looking to move in the next 12 months plan to become self-licensed. That said, Investment Trends said the self-licensing movement has eased in recent times as additional ...

The time is right: AFA chief

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
The proposed merger between the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has seen a mixed response, with many questioning the timing, but Phil Anderson says it's the right time. The idea of the ...