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OpenInvest names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... added BlackRock's iShares Enhanced Strategic Model Portfolios to its investor online marketplace. BlackRock's head of Australasia Andrew Landman said the model portfolios are designed to provide investors with exposure to broadly diversified portfolios ...

Former QSuper chief joins NZ Super Fund board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
The former QSuper chief and the current chair of Commonwealth Bank's staff superannuation fund has been appointed to the board of the $44 billion NZ Super Fund for a five-year term. Rosemary Vilgan will join the board of guardians for NZ Superannuation ...

CoreLogic appoints financial services solutions head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
CoreLogic has named its head of financial services solutions Australasia with a hire from Genworth. Eugene Vassiliev will be responsible for assisting the financial services industry in its goals to grow, manage risks and optimize customer engagement ...

Calls for Rio chief to be sacked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
The release of a review into the destruction of sacred sites at Juukan Gorge by Rio Tinto has resulted in calls for the chief executive to be sacked. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) said it was "appalled" at the internal ...

ESG crisis returns overcooked: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
ESG funds tallied up record inflows and touted better-than-market returns in the COVID-19 downturn but new academic research says there is no evidence that ESG scores contributed anything beyond traditional models. In ESG Didn't Immunize Stocks Against ...

Moelis adds to board

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... Assurance, IntraLinks, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Morgan Stanley. Goodfellow is currently the vice chair of Korn Ferry Australasia, and also serves on the advisory board of the Westmead Children's Hospital Grace Ward and is a non-executive director of the ...

ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australasian sustainable funds attracted inflows worth more than $207 million in the second quarter of 2020, with Australian Ethical and Dimensional reaping the majority of these rewards. Morningstar's latest Global Sustainable Fund Flows report, which ...

Life insurance at tipping point: Industry leaders

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... Mark Stewart, Zurich Life and Investments Australian chief executive Justin Delaney, and AMP Life and Resolution Life Australasia chief executive Megan Beer said there was an urgent need for greater sustainability, viability and affordability of life ...

FSC appoints four to board

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... drive strategic policy direction in the Australian funds management landscape. BlackRock Asset Management head of Australasia Andrew Landman, UBS Australia managing director Bryce Doherty, AllianceBernstein Australia chief executive Jen Driscoll and ...

Super-backed specialist centre opens in Hobart

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... demonstrating a proven track record of scalable investments," HESTA said. According to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, the local impact investment market has more than tripled over the past three years to almost $20 billion. "If even ...