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Australian investor confidence plummets: CA ANZ

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022
Investor confidence in local and international capital markets is lower than it was at the depth of the COVID pandemic according to a Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) survey. The CA ANZ survey said a combination of the pandemic ...

It will pay to keep employees happy: Fink

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
BlackRock founder and chief executive Larry Fink has urged chief executives to adjust to the new world of work ushered in by the pandemic, and stem staff turnover by listening to employees. In his annual letter to chief executives, Fink focussed on ...

Diversity should not exclude white men: Thinking Ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
Thinking about diversity as more than simply a matter of gender and race could benefit organisations, especially in the investment and pension industries, according to the co-head of the Thinking Ahead Institute. Thinking Ahead Institute at Willis Towers ...

AustralianSuper expands mandate for European growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
Australia's largest superannuation fund appointed a $109 billion fund manager to advise on investment opportunities in the European office and retail sectors. Appointed in 2013 to assist AustralianSuper with its UK investment strategy, TH Real Estate's ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Industry stakeholders expect 90% of Australia's superannuation funds to sign the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice before March 31, despite its several shortcomings. ANZ, AustralianSuper, MLC, MTAA Super, REST Industry Super and ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management restructures for efficiency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
BNP Paribas Asset Management streamlined its organisational structure through the creation of a new investment group. Merging its teams from subsidiaries THEAM and CamGestion with that of its multi-asset solutions division, the multi-asset, quantitative ...

Investment group takes majority stake in global advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... expansion. In the past, Focus has received strong backing from private equity groups Centerbridge Partners, Summit Partners and Polaris Partners. These firms, along with "certain wealth management affiliates and employees," have now sold their combined ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
The tsunami that has swept the financial market world last week right through to Monday has left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's ...

Technology polarising retail property spaces

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
The growing role of technology in consumer behavior is reducing institutional investors' interest in midrange retail property, according to TH Real Estate director of retail Myles White. Online catalogues, social media and a rising global brand awareness ...

Academic questions Libs' super board independence policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
The Coalition's plan to introduce stricter rules aimed at ensuring super fund board independence could be counterproductive, according to Sally Wheeler, professor of law at Queen's College, Belfast. Speaking at an event hosted by the Association of ...