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Vanguard rejigs Ethically Conscious options

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... Vanguard is updating its Ethically Conscious range of funds on the back of the FTSE Russell adding extra thresholds that will screen out more companies involved in fossil-fuel related activities. From March 24, the FTSE Russell's Global Choice Index ...

IAM mandate grows to $130m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... basis points relative to the initial price guidance, IAM said. IAM said this is a "milestone transaction" for the company and will be its largest primary OTC bond transaction once completed as sole lead manager. Settlement will take place on March 18. ...

Partners Group buys local data centre operator

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... developer, and operator of large-scale sustainable data centres across key Australian cities, Partners Group said. GreenSquareDC will also generate revenues under long-term take-or-pay contracts with global hyperscale customers and cloud operators. The ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... biggest motherhood penalties that exists," Dent said. Confidence is key Closing the confidence gap between men and women will be a key driver in tackling women's lack of participation in investing and managing their finances. A new survey from Fidelity ...

Three in five women lack retirement confidence

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... confidence. The findings, based on a survey of 2250 Australians, revealed that more than three in five women (62%) feel they will be unable to achieve a comfortable retirement compared to 47% of men. Only 34% of women felt prepared for retirement, compared ...

Beware creep of cancel culture into super fund governance: Lawyer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... outstanding experience and deliver considerable benefits to members," Barrett said. Barrett also noted that while APRA said it will magnanimously stop short of outright vetoing appointments, failing to take its feedback on board could see a fund placed ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... refreshing the investment strategy for its Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option, effective March 28. The major change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated nature of ...

Swiss fund manager expands in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... Youngtimers is set to acquire RFM, which has more than $200 million in assets under management (AUM) from Senry Holdings. RFM will then be rebranded as C Capital Australia upon completion of the transaction. The fund manager caters to global institutional ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... in operating costs, equivalent to 0.13% of assets under management (AUM). The average time it takes to launch a new fund will also go from 12 weeks to nine weeks, while the average seed funding required will fall from US$50.3 million to US$38.1 million. ...

'We're not going anywhere': SS&C serious about Aussie expansion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... what it can offer and is excited about the future potential. "We're making a big push here in Australia and I think we will continue to see success," Stone said. "We're expecting to grow in the double digits over the next five years. So, we're ...