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Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... transparency around where the money is invested, and opportunities for member consultation in this regard. "It's 2025. Investing our union's pension in fossil fuels is like betting on Blockbuster in a Netflix world. It's not just financially outdated ...

Betashares gearing up to expand Wealth Builder product suite

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... SMSFs are permitted to invest in geared ETFs. For other investors, they simplify and de-risk the gearing process. When investing in a geared ETF, the maximum potential loss is limited to the capital invested. "Compared to a margin loan, where individuals ...

Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... with CREATE-Research, lays out many issues facing asset managers, with the majority (61%) citing the threat of passive investing as a key challenge. More than half of the 269 global asset managers surveyed, including ones from Australia investing in ...

Green moves: Airtrunk, JPMorgan, T. Rowe Price

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... impact fixed income separate account business. Joining T. Rowe Price 16 years ago, Lawton's background is in impact investing and portfolio management. T. Rowe Price Australia country Darren Hall said: "Matt's leadership will facilitate a cohesive ...

T. Rowe Price welcomes head of impact fixed income

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... impact fixed income separate account business. Joining T.Rowe Price 16 years ago, Lawton's background is in impact investing and portfolio management. T. Rowe Price Australia country head Darren Hall said: "Matt's leadership will facilitate a ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... since 2020." Meanwhile, sustainability scores slightly recovered this year as funds continued to pursue responsible investing. Resilience score remained flat amid several sovereign investors hiring business continuity teams and revising their risk frameworks ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... portfolio at any given time, with weightings of no more than 10% each. It also remains diverse in selection, avoiding investing in companies that exert "homogeneous" elements. From those criteria, Aoris has laid out boundaries in avoiding investment ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... Cooper, the initiative is focused on collaborating and sharing knowledge to help trustees and professionals explore investing in the digital economy in a responsible and compliant way. A former NAB and Westpac executive, Cooper is currently the chief ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... ability to remain focused on the overall portfolio," he said. Future Fund, he said, already employs a hybrid model of investing in many instances, including in infrastructure, where it uses an external manager but retains governance rights that entitle ...

Geopolitical risks force family offices into alternatives, cash: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... opportunities they believe will benefit from the growth in AI (51%), than they are to deploy AI tech internally to improve the investing process (33%).