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Female board representation increases in Australia: MSCI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... index with majority female representation increasing to 11 - up from seven the year prior. Representing Australia in the field was MediBank Private, who has six women on its board of 10. Thirty-two company boards were divided exactly 50-50 according ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... companies is very much focused on encouraging what we think is industry best practice - adopting what leaders are doing in the field to mitigate risk. "We've done field trips to factories in China and Bangladesh in the past and recently we went to Cambodia. ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

FASEA listens as advice industry combs blueprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
The initial response to FASEA's education and ethical standards blueprint suggests the document needs more tweaks. However, it's clear the authority is listening to its advice industry constituents. The Association of Financial Advisers, the Financial ...

CountPlus acquires interest in integrated wealth firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... it looks to instead identify external opportunities for expansion. "Our selective criteria eliminated a relatively large field of potential candidates, with O'Brien the first to meet the hurdles we require," he said. O'Brien's four principals, Mark O'Brien ...

Former Macquarie Capital head launches fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
A Sydney asset manager led by former Macquarie Capital head of principal investments has kicked off a $500 million raise for its first fund. Federation Asset Management will invest in private equity including renewable energy and real estate focused ...

Star managers address low returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... portfolio has had more of its net exposure in Europe and Hong Kong as compared to US markets which rallied; and "truly-left field stock events", the manager said. The LIC made good gains on some of its picks on the long-end: Chorus and Downer surged ...

Downsizer scheme gains ground

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
The recently introduced downsizer contributions strategy is gaining traction, with the new scheme topping the list of adviser queries for the September quarter. BT Financial Group's technical team fielded about 3000 queries over the quarter, a significant ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... Commission is working heavily in the areas of sustainable finance "which will offer great direction and consistency in this [ESG] field." Greco added there's also going to be an addition in the MiFID II regulation requiring sustainability to be part ...

Unlisted property returns surpass equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... outcome from the Royal Commission will be the detangling of vertically integrated models which may create a more level playing field for non-bank aligned fund managers," he said. "Looking forward, interest rates will rise for one of two reasons - to ...