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Investment teams hire two men for every woman: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
... "While it is encouraging that managers are so positive about the benefits that diverse teams can bring, there sadly remains little evidence to suggest this is translating into hard action," Redington vice president Sarah Miller said. "We would urge managers ...

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... election campaign. "I think the government did the right thing by alleviating some of that cost-of-living pressure by being a little bit generous in those areas," he said. "Increasing deeming rates because rates are rising would have put more pressure ...

Budget deficit pressured by debt costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... gap." "To keep public debt under control, we must either tax more or spend less in the Federal Budget - last night did little to answer that important question. "Enough with the conversation. The time for talking is over, and the time for action was ...

Citi launches digital proxy voting service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... improve client experience and create efficiency in the market," he explained. Proxymity chief executive and founder Dean Little also commented on the partnership. "We are proud to grow and deepen our working relationship with Citi, who have been with ...

ETF industry drops in value

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... diversification. "Financial markets are forward-looking and have likely already priced in the threat of recession so there's little value in attempting to time markets based on daily commentary," he said. The data highlighted diversified, multi-asset ...

US state public pensions fragile: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... local pension plans don't have automatic COLAs. "A large share of public retirees in about a dozen states currently have little or no hope that their benefits will keep up with inflation," the report said. "Among the states that do have COLA rules, only ...

Proposed CFD class action targets IG Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... overwhelming evidence that highly-leverage CFDs should never have been marketed to everyday Australian investors who had little or no experience in trading such complex products," Piper Alderman partner Martin del Gallego said. "CFDs are little more ...

Financial stability risks escalate: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... grow rapidly in an environment of strong competition for lending, but the size of the sector remains small and there is little evidence that lending standards have deteriorated." The decline in crypto-asset prices in the first half of 2022 also had a ...

First Super: Merger pressure fizzles out

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... unseaworthy and your crew is incompetent, Byres is saying you will still encounter the maritime patrol". So it all seems a little less crude now, according to Watson, who has demonstrated that being below APRA's $30 billion benchmark does not necessarily ...

Throw out financial services law clutter: ALRC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... statutes were likened to a house, it would be a large and disordered one. A house in which new annexes have been added with little thought to overall design, and in which objects are scattered and hidden, with little regard to how they may be found in ...