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Super leaders recognised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... and more recently an independent member of the impact committee. She is currently also a non-executive director at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. She has also served as a non-executive director at Frontier since 2011 and is ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... quarter of 2021 at 32%. This was followed by New Zealand with 22.1%, Luxembourg with 16.6%, Slovakia with 15.5% and the United States with 13.2%. Australia ranked 18 th on the list countries with the highest annual growth rates, experiencing an 8.3% ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... acquisition finance (CAF) loan portfolio, as the latter looked to exit the Australian market after 23 years to focus on United Kingdom and South Africa. The acquired portfolio included leveraged finance and fund finance loans to corporates and funds ...

PRI chief executive resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
The chief executive for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment has stepped down after being in the role for almost a decade. Fiona Reynolds has been chief executive of the PRI since 2013. She joined the responsible investing group ...

IFM Investors named in class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... Pipeline, which the industry fund investment house acquired in 2007 as part of a consortium. The class action was filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Georgia with Ramon Dickerson as the lead plaintiff. Along with IFM ...

Lessons from GPIF: Mizuno

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... matters into their own hands if their governments are unwilling to do so. Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference, United Nations special envoy on innovative finance and sustainable investments Hiro Mizuno was asked what Australian asset owners ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... over the same one-year period, and far and away from economic contractions in the Eurozone (-1.8%), Japan (-1.8), and the United Kingdom (-6.1%). There'll always be dissenters but, for me, the Morrison government has spent our money wisely. The government's ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... economy, supported by the quickening and expansion of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out and the massive fiscal stimulus in the United States. The OECD predicts global GDP to grow by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0% ...

Superannuation consultant seeks new chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... restructure comes as it pursues international clients for its data quality solution Investigate. It will start with the United Kingdom. Vaughan's new role will focus on establishing the strategy for global expansion, with immediate focus on its UK prospects. ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... this changing landscape is creating geopolitical tensions. Ashley Townshend, director of foreign policy and defence at United States Studies Centre said the US is playing catchup when it comes to China, applying progressively aggressive policy in response ...