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Industry fund wins stake in Endeavour Energy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... energy providers including Collgar Wind Farm (WA), PowerCo (NZ dual-energy distributor) and Capistrano Wind in the United States. The transaction delivered $7.624 billion to the NSW government in gross proceeds, which Premier Gladys Berejiklian says ...

ESG holds key to adviser client retention

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... current geopolitical environment, according to Eames. "Around 40% of respondents to a recent survey we did in the United States attributed their interest in ESG to the US election, largely because Trump has been talking about rolling back environmental ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... export competitiveness would be tapered by Canada's very strong trade linkage (dependence on?) with America. The United States account for more than 75% of Canada's total exports and over 66% of its imports. This puts at risk the Bank of Canada's (BOC) ...

ESG adoption grows, returns follow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... of a complete ESG strategy; 80% have some level of ESG engagement with their investments, compared to 70% in the United States and 58% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "There's a broader appreciation of the notion that good governance translates ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Threats and counter threats are coming in fast between the United States and North Korea suggesting that neither side is backing down from a full-scale armed (nuclear or conventional) confrontation. On his visit to Seoul, US vice-president Mike Pence ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... arena from the funds management industry is growing, its magnitude varies materially across different regions. "The United States in particular has felt this influence more than anywhere else, while it has not been as pronounced in Australia," Tepeli ...

BlackRock's Fink commends Aussie infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... in funding infrastructure, and said the US needs to catch up. In his annual letter to shareholders, Fink said the United States trails behind countries such as Australia that have dedicated substantial expertise to bringing infrastructure projects appropriate ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... poorly. "Franklin responded by cutting 300 personnel worldwide and launching seven exchange-traded funds in the United States, four of which passively track customised benchmarks built using a proprietary multifactor model for each." Franklin Templeton ...

IMF Bentham taps debt markets

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... to existing cash reserves of over $150 million and support their growing case portfolio both in Australia and the United States." Ricciotti added that the number of companies returning to debt markets to retap existing issues highlighted the value of ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary wins CBA super mandate

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... behalf of institutions, charities, corporations and private individuals in the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States.