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BlackRock votes against CBA resolution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... vocal stance on sustainability and net zero ambition, BlackRock voted against a Commonwealth Bank shareholder resolution to stop the bank financing fossil fuels. The largest asset manager in the world, with US$9.5 trillion in assets under manager, voted ...

What will it take to get super on parental leave?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
... organisations should be offering paid parental leave," Lyons said. "No matter how tough the circumstance is, you have to stop looking at the short-term and start looking at the long-term benefit. If you start offering paid parental leave to women and ...

Short-termism damaging climate outcomes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... companies have not yet come to terms with climate change. She said companies do not have more time to cut emissions and need to stop thinking that 2050 is far away and they can achieve radical change by then. Wilkinson thinks that 2030 targets need to ...

NAB fined $18.5m over misleading fee disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
The big four bank has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $18.5 million for misleading fee disclosure statements in relation to personal financial advice, in what is the first penalty imposed by the court for such failures. The court found NAB ...

ASIC settlement hits E&P profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2021
... to broaden and deepen its M&A and equity/capital debt markets capability. In its funds management business, it pledged to stop seeding new real assets funds from retail clients, reduce the URF portfolio and wind down Dixon Projects.

Funds valued illiquid asset correctly: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
Corporate regulator ASIC stopped just short of praising fund managers on how they handled valuing illiquid assets at the height of COVID-19. ASIC found that the responsible entities of the funds were responsive to the increased valuation risks during ...

Ethical super could halve carbon footprint

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... excluding an investment in carbon-intensive companies does not actually mean the emissions produced by those companies will stop occurring instantly. "It's an alarming truth that many - if not most - Australians don't actually know what their super funds ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
Before he was an investment banker and economist with an enviable career spanning more than half a century, Don Stammer was just a 'Vacy boy' trying to beat the odds. He pays it forward this year with a university scholarship program, held in ...

Funds grilled despite record returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
... history of around 9%, with AustralianSuper enjoying a similar per annum return over its 15-year history. But that didn't stop the committee grilling the funds - particularly on the issue of members being signed up to digital publication The New Daily. ...

Superannuation complaints down 31%: AFCA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... AustralianSuper (1123 complaints to AFCA), Rest (708), Hostplus (404), AMP Super (367) and NAB's Nulis Nominees (320). Overall, the one-stop-shop for financial complaints received 70,510 complaints in the 12 months to June end. This was 12% lower than ...