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Regulator clamps down on misleading ESG fund names

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... fund names inform and do not mislead investors." Funds are prohibited from using misleading names under the Investment Company Act in the US which requires that funds with a name suggesting they focus on a particular kind of investment invest at least ...

Investment firm nabs former BlackRock fundie

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... Prior to her role at Strategic Financial Management, Carter spent a brief period with boutique fund manager SG Hiscock & Company as a joint portfolio manager of unlisted property. Prior to this, she spent 11 years with BlackRock as a fund manager. At ...

Spitfire loses top executives

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... investor. Shuttleworth spent close to 15 years at BT, having held a number of leadership positions before leaving the company in late 2018. A spokesperson from Spitfire told Financial Standard that Shuttleworth's departure was amicable and mutually agreed. ...

EQT bolsters board

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... cultural fit. "I believe in companies that have a purpose beyond commercial success," she said. "Equity Trustees is a company that has always existed to put the interests of others first - whether they are the beneficiaries of estates and foundations ...

JBWere partners with cash platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... through it. In September last year, Cashwerkz chief executive Hector Ortiz stepped down into a head of sales role, as the company spun out business unit Trustees Australia.

Aussie at center of international scheme

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... Australian citizen living in Malaysia - was ordered to surrender over $24.5 million (US$16 million) from his personal and company accounts with MOBE agreeing to pay over $26 million (US$17 million). McPhee will also be required to surrender his foreign ...

Colonial First State cuts fees, closes legacy options

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... fee changes, announced in December and effective March, cost about 6000 advisers roughly $1700 a year in revenue. The company has committed to end all trail commissions by mid-2020, as previously reported by Financial Standard. The government has set ...

Gender diversity remains static, women still disadvantaged

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... It argues this lift could be thanks to new legislation introduced in September 2018, which mandated that every public company in California have at least one female director on its board by the end of 2019. Morningstar found that women continue to serve ...

Fidelity sweeps Morningstar Australia Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... took home the fund manager of the year in undiscovered manager category, in welcome news for the manager as its parent company reports a 92% dip in profits and cleans out senior management. "This strategy, which is well supported in the institutional ...

WTW boosts Australian leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... Actuaries of Australia and received his Bachelor of Commerce and Applied Finance from Macquarie University. In addition, the company named Andrew Povah as head of core advisory. Povah will spearhead the company's traditional advisory asset consulting ...