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Actor linked to Malaysian pension fund scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... dedicated attorneys and law enforcement agents who continue to work on this matter. We simply will not allow the United States to be a place where corrupt individuals can expect to hide assets and lavishly spend money that should be used for the benefit ...

Fiduciary rule introduced in United States

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Financial advisers in the United States are now required to act in the best interests of clients in a bid to prevent the US$17 billion lost by retirement savers each year. Last Friday, the US Department of Labor partially introduced the impartial conduct ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... administration was "putting American jobs first," adding: "Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing." Trump said the US was ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... This is because "Many participants continued to view the possibility of expansionary fiscal policy changes in the United States as posing upside risks to their forecasts for U.S. economic growth..." Yes, Trump could provide that extra oomph but the FOMC's ...

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 ...